Articles by Jerry Pratt
Earth, Roots And Water
Innocent Youths
PUBLISHED May 20, 2008
When Earth Roots And Waters recently reissued debut Innocent Youths originally came out in 1977, the roots reggae band were studio tight a...
Out to Lunch
Excuse Me While I Do The Boogaloo
PUBLISHED May 20, 2008
On the opening track of their debut Excuse Me While I Do The Boogaloo, Brooklyn soul jazz band Out To Lunch almost musically typecast their...
Think of One
Camping Shaabi
PUBLISHED May 20, 2008
Intrepid Belgian world music band Think of One revisit Moroccan roots music on their exuberant new release. Guitarist David Bovee, who lead...
Dengue Fever
Venus On Earth
PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2008
Dengue Fevers third release, Venus On Earth, has founding members Zac and Ethan Holtzman sticking to picture perfect late 60s Cambodian p...
Lisle Ellis
Sucker Punch Requiem: A Homage to Jean-Michel Basquiat
PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2008
The amount of pop culture reverence for influential visual artist Jean-Michel Basquiats work is astounding. Biographies, movies, reprints...
Empire Isis
Sound The Trumpets
PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2008
On her new disc, Sound The Trumpets, Empire Isis reaffirms her reggae roots while stepping up her beat science on an international sound ti...
The Lions
Jungle Struttin'
PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2008
The weeping steel guitar of "Thin Man Skank and dub-wise Aggrovators style set the musical tone on the Lions debut disc, Jungle Struttin...
Loop 2.4.3
Batterie
PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2008
Full-on percussion albums sometimes collapse into freeze-dried, jam-band overkill. Brooklyn-based free-drum duo Loop 2.4.3 avoid this clich...
