Jean Smith, Jean Smith - 56m 10s

Tracks & Durations

1. Ghost of Understanding	4:43
2. Siamese Hips	3:53
3. Root Smooth Sapling Whips	9:59
4. Snippet From Hell	5:46
5. The Story of History	4:13
6. A Little Black Dress	8:20
7. Untitled	6:23
8. Flesh Freezes in Less Than A Minute	3:08
9. Mobilized By Lonliness	4:25
10. Halfway	5:14

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Review

Jean Smith is a published novelist as well as the vocalist for Mecca Normal and 2 Foot Flame, and her sole previous solo recording was a seven-inch record of recited prose. But she doesn't sing much on her uncategorizable long-playing debut. Smith's done some woodshedding during the three years since Mecca Normal's last record came out, developing her guitar and keyboard chops and reacquainting herself with an old love--the saxophone. She isn't a virtuoso on any of these instruments, but she doesn't have to be to obtain striking and novel results. "Root Smooth Sapling Whips," a deliberate piano-and-sax meditation, recalls the work of her former bandmate Peter Jefferies, but most of the album is given over to resonant, loosely wound slide guitar excursions that emerge from textured voice and synthesizer drones like tangled vines tumbling up a many-tiered old edifice. --Bill Meyer

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