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Dust My Broom

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How do Europeans manage to absorb the musical idioms of the US and project them back at us so accurately, and in such an artfully distilled fashion? It's like Dr. John's "Gris-Gris" channeled through the very best of Martin Denny's lounge music, then launched into the future. Like movies, music can suffer from their special effects. Not the case here. Very, very cool stuff. "Take it Slow" is a great, great song; so is "Treat Me." For the moment, at least, this is the music of my life.

Even though Boozoo Bajou's "Satta" is without a doubt a classic in its own right, their very impressive follow up "Dust My Broom" catapults this German duo into a whole nother hemisphere...after repeat listens one can't help but get the feelin' that he (or she) is in some steamy, bayou jook joint on a hot summer night! "Dust My Broom" is a combination of down home blues mixed with serious funk, dashed with sizzlin' reggae, soul and electronica to make it all STANK!!! "Satta" was excellent, but with the addition of vocals from Top Cat, Ben Weaver and the legendary Willie Hutch on "Dust My Broom", Boozoo Bajou has matured its sound and possibly reached an audience they didn't reach the first go round. If my mama can dig these guys, anybody can!!! Highly recommended!!!

Boozoo Bajou aren't your normal, run of the mill electronica/dance outfit... they're somewhere else. Quite where can be difficult to fathom out at times but don't let that put you off because "Dust My Broom" like "Boozoo Bajou Remixes" is a clever and hugely addictive album. Soaked in driving beats, wonderful reggae & dub overlays and some ridiculously atmospheric, heavily reverbed guitar riffs, it's like Kruder & Dorfmeister meet Dr John and King Tubby with a bit of Luther Vandross thrown in for good measure. Sounds odd... well it is - check out "Keep Going", "Blast", "Killer", "Take it Slow" & "Treat Me" to see what you're in for - but then that's what makes it so good.

3.5 stars. There are some very nice tracks on Dust My Broom. There are some grooved-out tracks that would feel at home on Satta, Boozoo's previous album that was characterized by chill, funky, instrumental, swamp mood music. And there are some nice tracks with guest vocalists that go in slightly different directions. But this follow-up album feels like too many other follow-up albums to me. It seems like these artists get some spotlight from superb debut albums, and then use that success to hire a bunch of guest stars for their next, in an effort to make something more "grand." But instead of improving on the originals, these sophomore attempts feel like disparate pieces thrown together in a manner that to a great extent abandons the elements that made the artists successful in the first place. This is a good album, but feels a bit artificially varied, and could never put you in the awed and ecstatic trance that Satta can.

I hadn't really paid attention to these guys until Six Degrees Records co-founder Bob Duskis mentioned them as one of his favourite groups in his weekly Traveler internet show ([...]). I liked the track he played in the show so I bought the album and found out that I enjoy it very much. Straight from the beginning till the very end it's pure entertainment, conscious and fun. If you can't enjoy this alone invite some friends (boys and girls) and put this on to work it's magic.

Love songs in this cd are so beautiful and honest that you cannot help singing along (Joe Dukie on "Take It Slow" is one of my favourite male singers today and doesn't fail to excel with the rasta U-Brown and Willie Hutch on "Treat Me" is doing a gorgeous job with female backups). Dancehall party burner anthem "Killer" with MC Top Cat is so cool and catchy that it's sure to move many sexy bodies on global dancefloors. "Way Down" is a deliciously creepy tune with cool spoken word by Ben Weaver, who says things like "You'll never find a religion . in a perfectly clean soul" and other cool stuff. But most of all it's the FEELING that's all over this album you know...A very nice one with a lot of street credibility and that's not really so easy to create.

Biggups to the producers Peter and Florian and their collaborators, and to the whole !K7 crew. One of the best downtempo releases for me in 2005 (and as a DJ I've heard a few).

while i really enjoy this cd, satta, their 1st was a lot to live up to. vocal tracks detract from some of the more intimate moments in the music. the dub numbers here without vocals shine through esp 9 degrees below zero. this is well worth the price but make sure that you own satta. now if we could only get them to tour ( non dj gigs).

Boozoo Bajou's second full-length, DUST MY BROOM, immediately shoots us into country-blues dub trip-hop--that's a lot of descriptors for "Keep Going," but it's true. Each and every one of those influences is in there. And it works. "Take It Slow" follows its own advice in a lazy dub haze, while "Killer" goes toe-tapping upbeat. The thick Texas twang of "Way Down" has a mysterious edge to it--surprising for two guys from Germany. But for those looking for more blues hollerin', "Moanin'" hits the spot perfectly. "S.I.P" thrums with a laidback funk that flows seamlessly into "Treat Me." Finally, "Barkensignal" takes the album out on a quiet, dreamy note. An excellent album, especially for those craving something new in their downtempo.

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"Dust My Broom" by Boozoo Bajou is getting a lot of high praise these days and it's actually warranted. There are a lot of downtempo laidback chill albums out there and this is one of the better ones.

There's a nice mix of music between downtempo, chill, reggae/dub, and some American blues thrown in. Add all that together and cook over some slow beats and you've got "Dust My Broom".

I enjoyed it. It's a laidback, slower album, good for hanging out or de-stressing. Good stuff from the stellar K7 label.

DUST MY BROOM: Boozoo Bajou made a bit of a splash (ha-de-ha) a couple of years back with DIVERS, a skanking reggae refit that found its way into a lot of DJ boxes, and ended up featuring on their debut SATTA album. SATTA was a mostly mellow, fairly low-key affair, appropriate when you consider that "satta" is a Jamaican term for "sitting", often used to indicate meditative repose. Where the debut album was mostly made up of shimmering, dusky instrumentals with occasional voices floating by deep in the studio mix, DUST MY BROOM employs various guest songwriters with predictably mixed results. The tantalizing pairing of sound system legend U Brown, and Fat Freddy's voice of milk and honey, Joe Dukie for TAKE IT SLOW ends up being rather pedestrian - nice, but no revelation - while DJ Top Cat really mashes up the firing KILLER in fine style. Elsewhere, Tony Joe White lends a suitably menacing voiceover to the opening KEEP GOING, while Ben Weaver tries much too hard with a third rate Tom Waits impersonation that borders on embarrassing. Willie Hutch is sadly underemployed with the forgettable TREAT ME, but Wayne Martin, making a return appearance after a cameo on SATTA, fares much, much better with the low-down, slow-burning blues number, MOANING. The remaining instrumentals are gems, especially the atmospheric interlude, BIWAK, and the frosty NINE BELOW ZERO. All in all, DUST MY BROOM is a decent effort with at least a couple of outstanding highlights - worth checking out.