Vernon Reid - Mistaken Identity
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Artist: Vernon ReidEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-06-04
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Mistaken Identity
- Who Are You? [Mutation 1]
- The Projects
- Uptown Drifter
- Saint Cobain
- Important Safety Instructions! [Mutation 2]
- What's My Name
- My Last Nerve
- Freshwater Coconut
- Mysterious Power
- Unborne Embrace
Free Music Notes for Mistaken Identity
Free Music Review: All-star cast, brilliant performances
Hit: 5 Stars
With names like Prince Paul, Teo Macero, actor Lawrence Fishburne, and even virtual reality pioneer Jared Lanier, you know you are in for either a big-time failed experiment, or something special. Thankfully its the latter. Oh is it ever the latter. The band (initially called Masque) contains a drummer, a DJ, a bassist, an alto sax/clarinet player, a rapper named Beans in an evening chair, and some guy in a lab coat playing some kind of freaky ambient midi instrument called a Samchillian Tip Tip Cheepee. I've seen this band live twice, once opening for King Crimson and once opening for Les Claypool and the Holy Mackerel, and both times they came off as a coherent and mighty live force, not a ragged thrown-together ensemble of session musicians (okay they were a bit ragged). The music is wildly formed, and raw, with dabblings in reggae, blues, fusion, hard rock, rap, but with elemental roots in funk. The biggest crime you could have besides not buying the album in general, is not buying the album because you think its chock full of Reid's trademark faster-than-hell shredding. There's moments of pure shred joy here, to be sure, but overall its a very tastefully restrained performance turned in by Reid. Check out "You Say He's Just a Psychic Friend" for a hot turn by Chubb Rock, the passionate and sympathetic ode to Kurt Cobain "Saint Cobain", the tastefully jazzy side of Reid on "Mysterious Power" and "My Last Nerve" (the latter showcasing the aformentioned Cheepee-thing), and the flat out power soloing of "Mistaken Identity". On top of that, you get some genuinely amusing skits in between some of the songs. This is a nearly flawless record.
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