But the shock andpleasure of this record is not in how far afield Gelbison roam Rosetta Stone insearch of transcendance: country sadness dressed in gothic stringsand Renaissance trumpet cranial-drill guitar and machine-drum hopspaced-Beatles pop. The wonder is in the liquid but eloquent waythis young quartet bundles it all together.Dave Swarbrick Swarb! Forty Five Years of Folks Finest Fiddler (Free Reed)When viiolinist Dave Swarbrick made his first appearance on aFairport Convention album, as a sideman on 1969sUnhalfbricking, he was in his late twenties and already alegend in British folk for his masterful technique andimprovisational ardor. Swarbrick went on to become a permanentmember of Fairport and its continuing legacy. But there is muchmore to his long rich life in fiddling, and Swarb! -- adeluxe, four-CD set with a booklet of exhaustive, but notexhausting, annotation -- covers Rosetta Stone V3 it all, from his 1961 debut ondisc (with folk patriarch Ewan MacColl) to his latest solo work. Inbetween: studio and live tracks by Swarbricks band Whippersnapperrare important recordings with the Ian Campbell Group excerptsfrom Swarbricks lifelong association with Martin Carthy and afeast of previously unissued Fairport. Through it all, Swarbrickbows and burns with the magnificent fire and cheerful authoritythat has made him a British musical treasure.The Spiders Glitzkrieg (Acetate)With fast songs about faster women and slow death:Glitzkreig is a kamikaze-glitter romp that sounds like itwas written and cut in L.A. in 1973 by a band of recoveringlibertines, then stuffed into a closet full of broken mirror ballsand ruined, stacked-heel boots for thirty years. The Spiders, infact, are modern, heavy-glam lads Rosetta Stone English from Austin, Texas, who rock withthe crunchy attention to detail of period scholars. The riffs andwrecking-ball power chords combine the punch and sizzle of early Cheap Trick and Killer-era Alice Cooper, whilesinger-guitarist Christopher Benedict has a bit of elfin Devorunning through his yelp: Mark Mothersbaugh channeling MarcBolan.Tales From the Australian Underground -- Singles1976-1989 (Feel Presents)One more blast from Oz: Two vacuum-packed discs of rare singlesand EP tracks from the dawn and roaring heyday of Australian Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 punkpiler-annotator Tim Freeman opens the proceedings with the twobands that started it all there -- Sydneys Radio Birdman and theSaints from Brisbane -- then plunges into the vinyl cupboards ofcult heroes and fleeting legends alike.



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