Dan Melchior - Filthy Frozen River Rag (2016)

Filthy Frozen River Rag' is a collage of snapshots - a high light reel of a period of time when things were in a definite state of flux. The tracks drift in and out of cohesion, and things occasionally veer off into a no man's land similar to the grey area between dreams and REM sleep, with the occasional nightmare thrown in for good measure. Although there is a mix of full band tracks and solo performances, the majority of the material is made up of rough hewn acoustic songs that were recorded in that manner intentionally, and not as sketches or demos (how much better are some of those Ray Davis demos than finished Kinks songs?)

TRACKLIST

01. Ice Cream And Hailstones
02. Oyster Oyster
03. New Pair Of Trousers
04. Ozzy Feldman
05. Rubber Rabbit
06. War Dance
07. Says The Engineer
08. Terse And Taciturn
09. My Wasteland
10. Its A Hard Life At Sea
11. Ozzy Feldman Two
12. Eyehooks For Andrew
13. Seabed Boogie
14. Gel Crash Helmet
15. My Card Ran Out
16. Pyre
17. Noel Edmond's Wife
18. The World's So Strange
19. Mock Mock Tudor
20. Ozzy Feldman Three
21. The Spider In My Shoes
22. City Lights
23. They Made You Grey
24. Two Dogs
25. When They Come
26. Ozzy Feldman Four
27. Trying To Act Cool In A Village Blues
28. Propaganda Cult