Painted Desert [Import]

Ikue Mori | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 20, 1997)
• Original Release Date: May 20, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Avant Japan
• ASIN: B0000058VL
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #588,681 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Mojave

2. Medicine Man

3. Desperado

4. Cheyenne

5. El Dorado

6. Santa Ana Excursion

7. Gundown

8. Painted Desert

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "Painted Desert" Is A Classic, November 28, 1999

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Edd S. Hurt (Boulder, CO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Painted Desert (Audio CD)

Three people made this: drum machine manipulator Iuke Mori and guitarists Robert Quine and Marc Ribot. With titles like "Mojave" and "Santa Ana Excursion" you would expect evocations of the West, and you wouldn't be disappointed. The tunes are pretty simple affairs but the guitarists display beautiful tone and Iuke Mori provides the right kind of propulsion. I'd rate this a classic of '90s instrumental music, right up there with Tortoise's "TNT" and Peter Scherer's "Cronologia." In fact, in this era of gloppy vocal music and too much melisma, albums like this are probably the only thing left to enjoy. No words. Quine you may know from his stint with Lou Reed, or maybe from "Kid With The Replacable Head," that great Richard Hell track from the '80s. Ribot is great too; all his albums are highly recommended.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Indeed, a great album, January 19, 2001

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Allan MacInnis (Vancouver) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Painted Desert (Audio CD)

If Edd S. Hurt's review is still around, it is fairly descriptive - Quine and Ribot do play beautifully (and none too noisily, if anyone is worried about that) and Mori does offer a "propulsive" percussive backing, which is extremely rhythmic and linear compared to some of her Tzadik stuff, say -- though it's still rich and complex and enjoyable. The only addition I'd make to Mr. Hurt's review, in fact, is that the CD was produced by John Zorn and reminds me a LOT of some of the FILMWORKS stuff of his -- with Mori playing the part of Cyro Baptista. Zorn fans will love this disc.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Almost perfect, September 5, 2002

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SPM "scott_maykrantz" (Eugene, Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Painted Desert (Audio CD)

I have a lot of trouble getting this disc out of my CD player. The format is very simple --- drum machine + two electric guitars. The drum machine sounds as natural as the guitars; Ikue Mori's beats are the opposite of techno. There's one noisy song ("Gundown") that breaks the spell for about two minutes.