X-LEGGED SALLY

KILLED BY CHARITY

  1/  Eddies                                     (Vermeersch)                  1.26
  2/  Dum Dum                                    (Vermeersch)                  3.34
  3/  Still Life With Ray                        (Vermeersch)                  3.38
  4/  Spix & Chaco                               (Vermeersch)                  4.19
  5/  The Shah of Blah                           (Vermeersch)                  2.50
  6/  Bleedproof                                 (Vermeersch)                  5.53
  7/  Break Too                                  (Vermeersch)                  3.56
  8/  Did You Get Your Milk, Stewart?            (Vermeersch)                  2.30
  9/  Mysterious Angelic Voices                  (Vervloesem)                  2.56
  10/ Am Tisch!                                  (Vermeersch)                  2.16
  11/ The Look of Love                           (David,Bacharach)             3.28
  12/ Killed By Charity                          (Vermeersch)                  4.21
  13/ It's a Baby                                (Vermeersch)                  4.41
  14/ Shedded                                    (Vermeersch)                  1.20

          Recorded and mixed at Greenpoint Studio, Brooklyn, New York, July 1993
          Engineered by Oz Fritz
          Assisted by Imad Mansour
          Produced by Bill Laswell
          Mastered by Howie Weinberg at Masterdisk, New York
Danny Van Hoeck : drums; Paul Belgrado : bass; Pierre Vervloesem : guitar, vocals, shaker; Jean Luc Plouvier : keyboards; Michel Mast : saxes; Bart Maris : trumpet; Peter Vermeersch : clarinet, vocals.

          1993  -  Sub Rosa (Belgium),  SR69  (CD)
Note : Bill Laswell does not play on this album.

REVIEWS :

On first hearing, I could have sworn that X-Legged Sally were yet more New York "no-wave" refugees. In fact the group is Flemish, recording in Brooklyn under the supervision of that man for all seasons, Mr Bill Laswell. As you might expect, this music contains much cross-pollination. Guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, sax, trumpet and clarinet produce post punk jazzcore, very tight ensemble playing with a nod to Beefheart or Zappa's weird time signatures, yet chunkier and funkier as Laswell's presence would suggest. It contains the only threatening version of David and Bacharach's The Look of Love that I've ever heard. Don't overlook this.

Dave Howarth (courtesy of the ESTWeb pages)