More early Heat from 1977/8, as This Heat do Can's
ethnological forgery series with some bloke from Ghana, called Mario Boyer
Diekuuroh. Do I detect Gamelan instruments,and various ethnic
percussion devices jamming with our heroes? World music crossover is
one of the worst ideas since the Sinclair C5. Never understood the
appeal it has to the white middle classes of the west. Probably so
they can say “I'm not Racist I like World Music”!? I'm pretty
open minded (yes!?)musically,as you likely guessed, but World
music/afro beat goes in the 'just don't get it' dustbin of my
mind,along with: Soul music, Hip Hop ,white reggae(which Charles
Bullen inexplicably stooped to after This Heat!?), and whatever
category Mumford and sons are in! And I have tried to like this shit
believe me! (except Mumford and Son who I could quite easily beat to
death with their fucking banjo!).
At least on this cassette we are saved
by the presence of This Heat to bring some sanity to the situation,
and no banjo's! There are a few good moments,but don't expect it to
sound like Deceit, just like some ethno jam sessions,with some
passing traveller hippie they met in a pub when drunk.
The other side of this cassette has
some fairly interesting modern composition avant rock crossover
symphony film soundtrack, called “Deux lions au Soliel”, by some French ex-progger
Albert Marcoeur. Good stuff,especially the last part which I mistook
for an unknown This Heat number.
Tracklist:
| A | –Albert Marcœur- | Deux Lions Au Soleil | |
| B | –This Heat with Mario Boyer Diekuuroh- | Various Cassette Recordings, 1977-78 |
