Title - 'Live at The Terminal Café'
Artist - Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix
For those not in the know, Sci-Fi/fantasy author and enigmatic British musician Michael Moorcock - who has collaborated with Hawkwind, Robert Calvert, Blue Öyster Cult and many others - mow proudly presents this brand new studio album, Live at The Terminal Café (Purple Pyramid / Cleopatra Records).
Indeed, this is the third album (packaged with full lyrics in a gorgeously designed booklet) by Moorcock's Deep Fix, the band named after a fictional group from one of Moorcock's most famous characters, Jerry Cornelius, and it is, in my humble opinion, their best yet.
1. 'The Effects Of Entropy'
2. 'Terminal Café'
3. 'The Dream Of Eden'
4. 'Sam Oakenhurst’s Story'
5. 'St. James Infirmary'
6. 'The Heat Of The New Orleans Night'
7. 'Lou'
8. 'A Man Like Me'
9. 'Mississippi Turn Round'
10. 'Blood'
11. 'Eden Revisited'
Along with Michael Moorcock playing lead and backing vocals as well as harmonica, he is joined on this album with the late Martin Stone on electric and acoustic guitars and lap steel, Denis Baudrillart on drums, Brad Scott on bass, Sean Orr on fiddle, Don Falcone on keyboards, Jonathan Segal on violins and Catherine Foreman on vocals.
This eleven-track album is rather an astounding mix of country, prog rock, blues and even Americana at times, with the stand out tracks for me being the guitar-twangin' fun of 'Terminal Café,' the heartfelt 'The Dream Of Eden, the brilliant storytelling of 'Sam Oakenhurst's Story,' and both the blues rock of 'A Man Like Me' and the harmonica driven 'Blood.'
Official CD Purchase Link
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