You're Next by Per Tjernberg, released on Rub-A-Dub Records in 1993.

Review by Bob Tarte

The three-cut composition kicking off this disc is the worldbeat equivalent of automatic writing -- part inspiration, part plain loopiness. As the second cut, "Okay," wound into "Neptune Boogie" in the exact same groove, I began considering this disc as a wanderer's version of Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians -- or, worse, as Tubular Bells with Jonas Lindgren's fuzzbox violin solo subbing for Viv Stanshall. To its credit, this resembles new age music not in the least, where one usually finds a similar mixture of oud, berimbau, didjeridoo and exotic percussion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccU2K-8UAgA&list=RDccU2K-8UAgA&start_radio=1

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Ended Monday and welcomed Tuesday with They Call Me by Per Tjernberg, released on Rub-A-Dub Records in 1990.

Review by Bob Tarte

My stomach shrivels at the first sign of nine-minute cuts that fail to resolve into beat or melody by 1:05. Darned, though, if I don't oblige Swedish multi-instrumentalist Tjernberg's most expansive assumptions, trusting that anyone who would launch a nouveau-voodoo groove with a Dr. John sample isn't hiding behind pretension. And the grooves are sufficiently wicked that when bandmember Tommy Adolfsson floats in on a Jon Hassell-style trumpet ("The One," "Full Moon") I'll even forgive the didjeridoo. What keeps this disc of rhythmically charged excursions from degenerating into a Scandinavian Planet Drum are songs that are more than dressed up sketches -- or else retentively reworked enough to do Ryuchi Sakamoto proud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oC0mMTMEkQ&list=RD4oC0mMTMEkQ&start_radio=1

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