The Black Light

The Black Light Artist: Calexico
Label: Quarter Stick
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 036172005222
EAN: 0036172005222
ASIN: B0000064B7


Release Date: 1998-05-19

The Black Light


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Tracks:

  1. Gypsy's Curse
  2. Fake Fur
  3. The Ride (Pt II)
  4. Where Water Flows
  5. The Black Light
  6. Sideshow
  7. Chach
  8. Missing
  9. Minas De Cobre (For Better Metal)
  10. Over Your Shoulder
  11. Vinegaroon
  12. Trigger
  13. Sprawl
  14. Stray
  15. Old Man Waltz
  16. Bloodflow
  17. Frontera

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The perfect soundtrack for a summer roadtrip in an old car across Death Valley. Calexico's musical textures are woven out of a dazzling array of instruments and styles, including mariachi trumpets, countrified pedal steel, Latin jazz percussion, and carnival organ, just to name a few. The songs move at siesta speed, casually looping and loping along, never getting overheated. Bandmates Joey Burns and John Convertino have their hands in so many musical pies--including projects with OP8, Giant Sand, Victoria Williams, Giant Sand, and Richard Buckner--one wonders how they find the time to create the sun-soaked music of Calexico. But thank God they have. <I>--Tod Nelson</I>

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars What we Want!!.......2007-05-12

When we think of Calexico everyone can be asked what are your expectations? these guys are not going to fill your portable stereo with pop but the groove is more like that of the Jamaican reggae producers. I love this album, it's my 'haunt the room with desert' album and can see now what these guys contributed to Giant Sand.

2 out of 5 stars very disappointing.......2007-04-05

This is boring, there is no theme, there are no highs and lows and the cd just aimlessly meanders.

I have seen Calexico on Austin City Limits and one of the late night talk shows (Leno? Letterman? Conan?). They were fascinating both visually and sonically. I have several live downloads and they put on a cool show. I made my own compilation and the disc is awesome.

This cd just does not do it for me. There are no bad songs on it but...there is hardly anything exciting, nothing really knocks my socks off.

This may be one of those bands that need to be experienced live rather than through the studio.

This hardly resembles the totally cool band I saw perform on Austin City Limits

5 out of 5 stars The Black Light.......2006-03-10

Awesome, Awesome cd!! If you like slow instrumental music that has a mexican sound you'll adore this. The song Over Your Shoulder is by far my favorite, it was worth the money just for that song. There are some songs that have vocals as well. If you put the cd on it kind of just sweeps you to another place.

5 out of 5 stars Feel good music...sort of........2006-02-19

This album just makes me feel great, not ecstatic and energized 'great', but rather soothed and contented 'great'. The music and lyrics evoke conflicts of the self with society and of the moment with eternity. They illustrate the perfection (by that I mean 'completeness', not necessarily 'flawlessness') of the seemingly simple, perhaps even mundane moments of life, while at the same time recognizing the immense world in which individual lives exist and the grand purpose that each life has. In doing so, the album explores frontiers, those places between humanity and the vast unfamiliar world where everything is strange and new, where there are seemingly endless possibilities and a man has obligations to no one but himself. That feeling of hope and purpose and independence and risk associated with a frontier is what feels so good when I listen to this album. Also, it just sounds really awesome.

5 out of 5 stars one of the most distinctive and traditional styles of the era.......2005-10-15

Calexico, which was Giant Sand's rhythm section of bassist Joey Burns and drummer John Convertino, coined one of the most distinctive and traditional styles of the era.

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