November 22, 2009
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Utne Reader Music Reviews: July-August 2008

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July-August 2008
by Staff, Utne Reader 
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Dosh
Wolves and Wishes (Anticon)
Martin Dosh is a solo artist who makes mostly instrumental music for the digital age, but that implies a level of seclusion and impersonality that his compositions just don’t have. Wolves and Wishes is immediately engaging for its pretty melodies and playful rhythms, and it’s more old school than you might suspect: There are no drum tracks, and real violins, guitars, saxophones, and human voices emerge from the mix. Compositionally, Dosh takes his cues from greats of the non-pop contemporary canon: There’s a little Steve Reich in the repetition, a little Arthur Russell in the unhinged emotionalism, a little Brian Eno in the gorgeous washes of ambient sound, a little Sun Ra in the spacey experimentalism. And at the core of it all is a pulsing, passionate heart. —Keith Goetzman

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Clearly the work of a terrorist organization, Extraordinary Rendition promotes dangerous anti-American notions such as multiculturalism, internationalism, and exuberant dancing. The ringleader of the Rupa and the April Fishes jihadist group appears to be a dark-haired woman with intense eyes and a command of numerous languages and musical traditions—especially French and gypsy—all the better to infiltrate the cosmopolitan capitals of the West with her band of ethnically indeterminate musicians. Most of her songs are about love, which may be a veiled reference to hate. Research has revealed that Rupa lives a double life as a physician and that while the group operates in the San Francisco area (naturally), it has set its sights on world domination. If you see them, please get close to the stage and obtain detailed physical descriptions. —K.G.

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