July 9th-23rd, 1992
ON THE EDGE
BY DAVID FRICKE
...On
the Blank Generation
(Four Dots, CD) finds Little Jack Melody With His Young Turks setting the Wayback Machine for Berlin, the 1920s and that swinging Weimar Republic sound (tuba, banjo, harmonium, teary violin), duded up with supper-club class and fine surrealist humor. One song retells the Creation story with Frank Sinatra as God; another celebrates the liberation of Switzerland. Deeply weird, utterly fab....
