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Various Artists

"Saturday Night Cedar" CD

Wood Records

Genres: hometaper, ambient, indie pop

Wood Records
1604 Central
Dodge City KS
67801 USA

Jun 8 - 14 2003

Oh golly!  There isn't anything quite like a Wood Records compilation, and Saturday Night Cedar keeps up the label's tradition of excellence nicely.  Bringing together a delicious selection of hometapers and independent bands from across the US and parts of Europe, this very DIY CDR gives a terrific dose of what the Wood label is all about.

After a brief instrumental from the genius Zed Salt / Mark Flake collaboration CDR, we're sent right into a bizarre bedroom recording by David Spero Peligro.  It is kooky and fun, but doesn't get you at all ready for Cadence's punky rock anthem, "Invisible" - a viciously catchy tune that will tear you apart.  Then, Linda Draper brings on the anti-folk, Italian ambient masters LAM provide some of their unbearably terrific melodic soundscapes, and Knyaz Michkin gives us a taste of instrumental guitar music from the Belarus Republic.

And that's just the beginning.  Among the disc's twenty songs, you also get plunderphonics from Klarc Qent, funky vocal-ized elevator music by Peter Dizozza, and a characteristically sorrowful folk tune courtesy of Charles Fyant.

Overall, this is worthwhile for fans of hometaper music, as well as those just looking for something different and exciting.  Recommended.

87%

Matt Shimmer

[Vitals: 20 songs, distributed by the label, released 2003]