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Skerik: Husky

Read "Husky" reviewed by Graham L. Flanagan


Harry J. Anslinger, the United States' original Drug Czar, invented an unusual term to sum up what he considered as the moral decay caused by the collision of the jazz and drug cultures in the 1930s and 1940s: “syncopated taint." Popular tenor sax phenom Skerik--fresh off of a 2005 tour with Mike Clark's Headhunters--adopted ...

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Garage a Trois: Outre Mer

Read "Outre Mer" reviewed by John Kelman


Film music has its own sets of demands, often required to elevate the emotional content of the cinematic story while at the same time seamlessly blending so that it doesn't dominate. And while scores can literally define the mood of a film at their best--think Hitchcock's Psycho--and some only work in conjunction with the films for ...

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Mylab

Label: Terminus Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Pop Client; Master Korean Musicians Of Canada; Land trust Picnic; Varmint; Fancy Party Cakes; Phil And Jerry; Workaholic Song; Old Days; Earthbound; Not In My House; Ask Mickey; Chi-Chi Marina.

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Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2003
Track listing: Freakus Piniatus; Philadelphia; Let Me Be Your Voodoo Doll; Runnin Away; Too Many Toys; Bus Barn; Christina; They Did That To You; Morphine.

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Syncopated Taint Septet

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2003
Track listing: Freakus Piniatus; Philadelphia; Let Me Be Your Voodoo Doll; Runnin Away; Too Many Toys; Bus Barn; Christina; They Did What To You; Morphine.

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Skerik: Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet

Read "Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Is there such a phenomenon as the 'Seattle sound?' Not the Puget Sound, as in water, I mean a distinct regional musical flavor. All those 1980s flannel shirt proto-punk bands thought so. Maybe when it comes to jazz, the Seattle sound is more about an attitude, and maybe irreverence. Enter saxophonist Skerik's Syncopated Taint ...

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Skerik: Syncopated Taint Septet

Read "Syncopated Taint Septet" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Lots of people talk about dirty funk, but few of them know. Usually they mean the New Orleans variety, swamp funk that leaves silty mud between your toes. Sometimes the Philadelphia kind, all sweat, grease, and dust. But Seattle funk is a different thing entirely--it's all about throwing clods of rooty sod around, playing catch with ...


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