Puzzle

Puzzle Artist: Seedy Arkhestra
Label: Astor Place Records
Category: Music


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


UPC: 706881400822
EAN: 0706881400822
ASIN: B000005EGQ


Release Date: 1997-08-12

Puzzle


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Tracks:

  1. You Can't Do That
  2. Shing-A-Ling
  3. A Thousand Tears
  4. How Will I Know
  5. Despite The Tears
  6. Puzzle
  7. Burn
  8. Baby Would You Take Care Of Me?
  9. Flog Your Dead Horse

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Chris Dowd Is Back with Love in his Heart.......2002-08-13

Recorded in two weeks in New York City with an all-star cast including Don Byron, Hod David, N'dea Davenport, the late Jeff Buckley, and various players from the city's still thriving roots ska scene, 'Puzzle' is a big, beautiful portrait of New York that only great artists seem to capture.

Chris Dowd, a supremely gifted singer/keyboardist/trombonist/songwriter from Los Angeles, has crafted a lovely, atypical roots ska 'n' reggae album on which every song save the very last one expands the instrumental palette of Jamaican music. "Baby Would You Take Care of Me" features banjo and other acoustic instruments, but it's straight-up rocksteady. "A Thousand Tears" is a big-band ska blowout with a gorgeous arrangement that feels like riding in a cab down Broadway with someone you love.

The opening track, "You Can't Do That," (not the Beatles tune) starts with a U-Roy-styled deejay intro from Dowd that suggests he doesn't take himself too seriously, but also has the verbal and musical vocabulary to take modern music into the next level. The human factor is critical to this album. Machines simply can't do this kind of shing-a-ling.

The bass-heavy dread vibe of "Burn" is offset by Dowd's cheeky observation, "You won't mind if I go offline," and the Christian imagery he brings to the militant meditation. N'dea Davenport guests on a sweet lovers rock tune, "How Will I Know" -- not the Whitney Houston tune -- and turns in the most impassioned performance of her career.

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  3. International Pop Overthrow, Vol. 3 ~ Various Artists
  4. Out of Control ~ Crossfires
  5. Little Bay ~ Sorta
  6. Found Treasures ~ Blood Sweat & Tears
  7. Smooth Sax Tribute to Santana ~ Various Artists
  8. Like It or Not--Live ~ F Word
  9. Bastion of Itchy Preeves ~ Cerberus Shoal
  10. The Falls of Rough ~ Cast Iron Filter

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