Zippo Songs [Import]

Phil Kline (Artist), Bleckmann (Artist), Cossin (Artist), Reynolds (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 13, 2004)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Cantaloupe
• ASIN: B00012SHY8
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #368,935 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A real head trip, March 7, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Zippo Songs (Audio CD)

I first heard this on the New Sounds show on Public Radio. The main group of songs is based on the weird slogans American soldiers had engraved on their Zippo lighters in Vietnam, so you can imagine the kinds of emotions evoked. And the songs based on Donald Rumsfeld quotes are hilarious. The whole thing is orchestrated in a kind of hallucinatory electronic groove that veers from rock to modern abstraction and back to stark simplicity, just as the songs progress from mood to mood until the final apocalyptic ending. The tunes are haunting and the playing is brilliant.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lieder for the 21st century, December 26, 2004

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James G. Glicker (Baltimore, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Zippo Songs (Audio CD)

This is some of the best new music I've heard this year. Kline's songs are haunting. The lyrics are simple and short (they fit on a Zippo lighter after all), the tone is quiet and subdued, and the settings are often spare (just voice and guitar and electronics). But the overall effect combines to move you as much as a 110-person orchestra. Quite a feat. If Schubert were writing today, this is what it would sound like.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MINDBLOWINGLY GOOD CD, November 22, 2004

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Ben (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Zippo Songs (Audio CD)

That review below by Mr Dandy is ridiculous. I love this album, it moves me every time I put it on. I listen to it for sheer pleasure as well as for a potent reminder of what our soldiers must be thinking and feeling in Iraq. Bleckmann's distant vibratoless voice perfectly captures the numbing, conflicted reality of the everyman who serves, the "everysoldier" at war. My wife loves this cd too, as do my co-workers. As my son says, this is the sh-t!