Samsara Music Cd

Squirrel Nut Zippers - Samsara

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Samsara      Artist : Tom Maxwell      List Price : $16.98 USD        ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2000-05-16      Studio : Samsara      Label : Samsara      Avg. Customer Rating : (16 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Samsara      Ultimate in diversity      Rating:      I want to keep this short. I bought SNZ's Bedlam Ballroom not knowing there were changes in the group,when I discovered the missing element was Tom Maxwell I bought this cd as well. This is the one I still listen to a year later. PLEASE GIVE US MORE TOM!     Customer Reviews for Samsara Cd      Record of the year for me!      Rating:      Leaving to do his own thing I think opened him up in some way to make music I wish folks still made more of. I have friends that find there own favorite songs, but feeling satisfied with a lot of lot. First, there was never any sousaphone playing on any Zippers album that I remember, which was a beautiful old, classic touch. Then, you wish you had a lot more time to find all these influences that come out in his music (like Waller). His blues and country song are genuine, his addition of amazing Holly Harding is tremendous, the singing quartet does two completely original songs great and he seems to have a way that critics never seem smart or educated enough to come off intelligently in their "reviews." If you just love music, this is the album. You can hear his missing presence (and Ken Mosher's) in the new Zippers and you can see its soul re-figuring itself and rebirthing here with Maxwell's visionary and roots respecting music. If I had more room I'd say more (like you couldn't tell). Amen to him and what he does. Editorial Reviews for Samsara Audio Cd      Amazon.com      For his post-Zippers debut, former Squirrel Nut frontman Tom Maxwell shows great skill at mixing musical languages. For starters, he opens with a sona solo (that's a Chinese reed instrument, natch). Then he kicks in with a pair of horn-heavy rave-ups--"Sixes and Sevens to Me" and "The Uptown Stomp." What stands out in the swing department is Maxwell's more cabaret-touched approach, less about Setzerian flash and more about energetic detail and drama. Just as a sona solo opens the album, so too two other Buddhist numbers appear: "Some Born Singing" and the title track, both sung by Holly Harding Baddour. She has a voice that peaks and wavers on these Asian-tinged numbers and then swaggers on "If I Had You," a sultry cabaret swinger. Maxwell moves in other directions, too: "Flame in My Heart" is a George Jones tune, faithfully rendered, "Three Fire Blues" is Maxwell as a solo guitar bluesman, and "You Always Get What's Coming" has the leader duetting with Tom Loncaric on pipe organ. Samsara's an ambitious outing, as big in scope maybe as are Maxwell's spiritual notions. This is also an immense creative success. --Andrew Bartlett