17 Pygmies
ISABEL II (ABADDON RISING)
(TRAKWERX)
2015
PHILIP DRUCKER AKA JACKSON DEL REY is nobody's idea of an unambitious
slacker. The ex-SAVAGE REPUBLIC guitarist has made artistic 17 Pygmies
records since 1983's Hatikva EP, yet he's been most fruitful since
2007's dynamite solo score for SERGEI EISENSTEIN'S 1925 Battleship
Potemkin and, starting in 2008, a nine-CD/three-book 17 Pygmies project.
This fifth CD of that boundless booty is another beaut, at times their
comeliest, coming after Celestina I, II, and III and Isabel I. Drucker's
graphic novel, short story, and film script record the trials of
futuristic fugitive Isabel and fellow heroine Celestina; augmented by
the sensuous singer MEG MARYATT, the group's ongoing soundtrack fits the
chronicle: Isabel II is a potpourri of sonorous classical strings (a
force), Eno-esque keyboards ("Isabel XV"), acoustic folk guitars,
piquant piano, twinkle bells, and methodical drums or electronic dance
beats. Wish all artists gave so much.
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