Cryland

Don Cavalli, Don Cavalli | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 22, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Everloving
• ASIN: B0012IWI54
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #314,117 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Review

It's hard enough as it is to learn another language, so give France's Don Cavalli bonus points for nailing Americana roots and blues with a fat-ass hammer. His stripped-down hybrid Cajun swing owes as much to his laptop as it does to his soulful pipes, which recall everyone from Jimmy Cliff to Leadbelly.

Cryland is full of upbeat exercises in this crosspollination, from the harmonica bounce of "Vengeance" to the gospel thump of "I'm Going to River." The lo-fi beat poetry of "New Hollywood Babylon" highlights, like the similarly energetic "Gloom Uprising" and most of this effort's other excellent tracks, Cavalli's sickly awesome wah-pedal soundtracking. From front to back, his postmodern folk music is a blast from our mutually repurposed past. --XLR8R Magazine

Product Description

Ranked #12 in the 50 Best Albums of 2008 by Mojo. A
disarming blend of funky blues and skiffle beats, Don s music
contains echoes of Cajun and Zydeco wrapped up in 60s
garage-soul grooves. Also available on LP.

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4.0 out of 5 stars excellent, July 29, 2010

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Who Don Cavalli is and where is from I am not sure. But I am sure I love this album.

Cryland is blues. It uses a lean, flexible band, and highlights a slightly phased guitar. The tracks all stand as close to pure 12-bar as you can achieve without actually aiming at blues purism. This extremely pallet massaging work could be from 1970 for its clear production and adherence to old delta forms.

But what really got me about Cavalli is his voice. He has a light alto and sings every track with a laid back-but never detached-vibrato. Now unless you are Robert Plant or Burton Cummings or Rob Thomas, a class A set of pipes is rare. But Carvalli understands the art of great singing, staying a fraction of an inch back from the music, letting the music carry him. You can almost see him moaning with a guitar on a depression era Alabama street corner.

Get it.