ニューヨーク・ブルックリン出身のミュージシャンMike Wexler。カテゴライズされることを嫌う彼は、そう言うに充分な程の才能を音楽の中で力いっぱい表現する。今回はそんな彼がMexican Summerから2作目のLPとなる『Dispossession』を発表することになった。今作では元White MagicやThe Occasionのメンバーがフューチャリングし、Ryan Swayer、Nate Wooley、Jessica Pavoneといった面々による即興パートも収録されているという豪華な内容だ。Robert WyattやRichard Youngsのファンには是非聴いてほしい。

発売・販売元 提供資料 （2012/02/13）

Mojo - 4 stars out of 5 -- "A cabal of Brooklyn jazz, classical and alt-rock musicians lend craftsmanship thorughout....'Liminal' gently ripples outwards across a pool of resonating analogue synths and pitter-patter percussion." Uncut - "Wexler delivers an alluringly lugubrious set that views Fairport Convention, the Canterbury scene and Simon & Garfunkel through a glass darkly..."

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The air of gentle psych rock drift that Mike Wexler's 2012 album Dispossession has from the start certainly doesn't make any effort to be anything else: drawn-out airy keyboards straight from Sonic Boom's first solo effort, easygoing grooves, soft whispered vocals. No surprise, then, that the second song on the album is called "Spectrum," which might as well be an overt tip of the hat to the former Spacemen 3 co-leader. But the nice thing about Dispossession, regardless of some initially obvious roots, is that it's just accomplished enough as an amalgam -- not entirely groundbreaking but definitely enjoyable as a collective reworking of impulses, with Wexler and a variety of guest players creating an enjoyable little treasure in its own right. Thus on "Spectrum," when the song's vocal melody suddenly shifts in a break almost like a straight-out pop hook, Wexler first serves notice that he's not simply going to follow one path when more are available. That ends up being a bit of a model for the rest of the album, with a similar shift into a brighter, almost sunnier sound following a moodier start on other songs such as "Lens." "The Trace," meanwhile, shifts toward a completely different style simply by virtue of removing the keyboard glaze in favor of a sparer, more focused arrangement defined by understated melody, while "Glyph," in turn, strips down to an acoustic guitar at the start before building the arrangement back up again. ~ Ned Raggett|

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