?A second helping of sonorous splendor from these six pacific Marlow, England, lads. Tatooine is not quite as strong or as immediately appealing as 1992's Stereo Musicale, released the previous year on the Planet label. That debut had more bite, dug in harder, and seemed bigger sounding than this (gone now are the pleasant Slowdive comparisons). However, on the plus side, they've ditched that slightly overused flute, and the sextet's quiet dalliance and lulling vocals can still transport a weary soul to a...   [ read more ]

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When it was first released in 1974, Hula Blues was the first album-length compilation ever of Hawaiian instrumental steel guitar music recorded in the 1930s and 1940s. It was reissued on CD by Rounder in 2000, by which time it was a rather less impressive feat since other bigger, better, and better-sounding anthologies of the style have been made available (including a few on Rounder itself). Indeed, with 16 songs, this is rather on the short side for anthologies in the CD era, and there's a lot of surface...   [ read more ]

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