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Fuzzy Doodah

World Without Dogs

Sugar Fix

This is an interesting mix of music and spoken word. Rich Ferguson (credited with “rantchant,” among other things) shows plenty of talent as he weaves a complicated tapestry of the ordinary and the surreal – “Quiet Ride” is the tale of a man who shoots the mayor for messin’ with his wife, and then escapes on his Toro Variable Speed Quiet Ride mower, strewing a green swath of chopped grass on his flight across town. The musical backing is liquid and often sounds like a movie score. An interesting hour or so.

Sugar Fix Recordings, P.O. Box 46361, Los Angeles, CA 90046-0361; http://www.sugarfix.com


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