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JOE TURNER
BETWEEN TWO SECONDS
Camera Obscura

He might share a name with the great blues shouter, but the roots of this Boston-based multi-instrumentalist and former Abunai! drummer are firmly in classic psychedelia. And he’s made one of the coolest independent albums by a local artist this year. The instrumental "Waking Dream" immediately pulls you into an aural odyssey, as sheets of guitar (from Bright’s Mark Dwinell), keyboards, flute, bass, loops, and percussion overlap to create a shimmering harmonic color field. Like XTC, Turner can incorporate his sonic passions into pop-song constructions, and his laid-back but thoroughly capable tenor singing makes the most of the hooky choruses of the rocking "When Will You Wake Up" and the childlike "Stella Luna," where he admits he’s bats for the bat. But he’s loopier than Andy Partridge’s crew, so the sing-song lyrics and melodies of tunes like "Coordinate Zero" and "Turn Me Upside Down" hark back to an earlier paisley period, when Roky Erickson and the Strawberry Alarm Clock defined opposite ends of the style’s magic-carpet ride.

BY TED DROZDOWSKI


Issue Date: December 23 - 29, 2005
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