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No offense to gifted ex-partner Peter Scherer, but on his own Arto Lindsay is two-thirds the creative force the Ambitious Lovers once were. Gone, for the moment at least, is the Lovers' reckless, all-embracing dance rock, which leaves Arto with his Brazilian taste for gently meditative song poetry and his avant-garde gift at experimental noise, a gift that has long been metamorphosing into straight jazz chops. *** Arto Lindsay
O CORPO SUTIL/THE SUBTLE BODY
(Bar/ None)
Here, his experimental side makes the final move from dim-lit downtown rock clubs into soft-lit uptown jazz bars, blending perfectly with his singer-songwriter side for his most stylistically uniform release since he fronted no-wave legends DNA. Whether he's writing with Caetano Veloso, Bill Frisell, or Ryuichi Sakamoto, the mood is romantic, poised, melancholy. His main musical referent seems to be bossa nova; his main lyrical device is literate, punning rhymes: "The famished, the just, the ravished . . . I have a lavish self." You have to listen closely, but if a suggestive turn of phrase doesn't get you, its haunting arrangement surely will.
-- Franklin Soults
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