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"Bigger Than Brando" Reviews
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very nice review from Graham Reid at Elsewhere:
http://www.elsewhere.co.nz/music/6646/short-cuts-a-round-up-of-recent-new-zealand-releases
Kokomo: Bigger Than Brando (kokomo.co.nz); Hats off to this long-running band out of the Bay of Plenty. This is their 10th studio album and they present it well in a classy gatefold cover. Singer-songwriter Derek Jacombs has been around long enough to have a persuasively seasoned blues voice, and as a songwriter he knows his way around a narrative or a mood piece. Members of this six-piece have a grounding in blues -- as witnessed here by Homesick Blues -- but they stretch wide into quirky country-pop (the title track wouldn't disgrace a John Dee Graham or Tom Russell album and you deserve to hear it, stream it free here). Elsewhere they get breezy and backporch (I'll Do Anything), darker soul-blues (Ruby, the early Waits sound of Lightnin's Gold Tooth) and plenty of material (Waiting for a Sunny Day, Joe the Bartender) which you know is going to have great live appeal. Stick around for the easy old-time roll of South Sea Song at the end which should appeal to any Leon Redbone fans.
Graham Reid
http://www.elsewhere.co.nz/music/6646/short-cuts-a-round-up-of-recent-new-zealand-releases
Kokomo: Bigger Than Brando (kokomo.co.nz); Hats off to this long-running band out of the Bay of Plenty. This is their 10th studio album and they present it well in a classy gatefold cover. Singer-songwriter Derek Jacombs has been around long enough to have a persuasively seasoned blues voice, and as a songwriter he knows his way around a narrative or a mood piece. Members of this six-piece have a grounding in blues -- as witnessed here by Homesick Blues -- but they stretch wide into quirky country-pop (the title track wouldn't disgrace a John Dee Graham or Tom Russell album and you deserve to hear it, stream it free here). Elsewhere they get breezy and backporch (I'll Do Anything), darker soul-blues (Ruby, the early Waits sound of Lightnin's Gold Tooth) and plenty of material (Waiting for a Sunny Day, Joe the Bartender) which you know is going to have great live appeal. Stick around for the easy old-time roll of South Sea Song at the end which should appeal to any Leon Redbone fans.
Graham Reid
William Dart has reviewed it on his iconic Radio New Zealand show New Horizons - Click HERE to hear the clip.
Here's an extract: “There's no getting away though from the title number (No One Was) Bigger Than Brando. Its a witty piece of deconstructionist hagiography on the muttering hulk that was Marlon Brando. It's the sort of thing that American songwriter Tom Russell might have tackled but Kokomo do it with more lightness...”)
Here's an extract: “There's no getting away though from the title number (No One Was) Bigger Than Brando. Its a witty piece of deconstructionist hagiography on the muttering hulk that was Marlon Brando. It's the sort of thing that American songwriter Tom Russell might have tackled but Kokomo do it with more lightness...”)
And Tony Moon reviewed it in the BOP Blues newsletter -http://www.bopblues.com/newsletters/oct-nov14.pdf
And at the same session a posed photo for the front page of Tauranga's Weekend Sun Newspaper. ( Pic Colin Lunt )
KOKOMO - Blues and Beyond
“Wry, satirical, apocalyptic ... rooted in acoustic traditions, though not bound by them”
“Wry, satirical, apocalyptic ... rooted in acoustic traditions, though not bound by them”
Nick Bollinger
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