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QUINTRON & MISS PUSSYCAT
SWAMP TECH
TIGERBEAT6

New Orleans duo Quintron and Miss Pussycat are best appreciated live; what with his customized manual synthesizer/organ (outfitted with headlights) and the beat-generating Drum Buddy and her hand puppets, their shows suggest a glorious, unholy alliance of Kukla, Fran, and Ollie and the Cramps. Yet even boiled down to CD, their theatrical charms project. When Quintron cites funk-jazz innovator Jimmy Smith as an influence, he isn't paying lip service; his chunky riffs even isolate a hip-shaking component in a cover of Kiss’s " God of Thunder. " The repetitive "Swamp Buggy Badass" suggests a cheerier incarnation of Suicide; "Witch in the Club" should inspire some new ways to shimmy. (Speaking of contortions: Quintron's white-boy soul bark on the former cut is a dead ringer for no-wave icon James Chance’s.) Swamp Tech was recorded live to two-track; the sound levels vary erratically across these 11 cuts, but the deranged fun remains constant throughout.

Quintron & Miss Pussycat + Harry Merry + Big Digets | Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge | Nov 10 | 617.864.EAST.

BY KURT B. REIGHLEY


Issue Date: November 4 - 10, 2005
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