Jackson Del Rey was a founding member of L.A. experimental rock combos such as Savage Republic and 17 Pygmies. If you’re familiar with these bands, you’ll understand this gives him a very good pedigree for undertaking his new project – creating a soundtrack for Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 silent film about a shipboard food protest that results in carnage, and brings the seeds of revolution to the port city of Odessa. Instrumental, incorporating a variety of Del Rey’s expected pan-national musical influences, and relentlessly dark, this is wonderfully crafted chamber prog of the highest order. The disc is beautifully packaged, and a great addition to Del Rey’s canon. He was off the music scene for a decade and a half, and it’s nice to have him back.
By Byron Coley
First printed in November 2007
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