April 21, 2005
Voodoo Organist To Play Chicago Tomorrow!
One of MK's favorite comntempory artists willl be playing Chicago on Friday April 22 at the Exit 1315 W. North Ave. Chicago www.exitchicago.com
The Voodoo Organist (Scott Wexton) is touring the states in support of his third CD, “Holy Ghost Town,” was released February 15, 2005 on his newly renamed label, Voodoo Man Music, and is again being distributed by Dead Teenager Records.
It’s his most potent album to date, with 13 tracks that samba and slither through a decadent palette of musical styles. Using a whiskey-soaked growl, a vintage organ with bass pedals, a theremin and various rhythm devices, Wexton tells tales of sin and temptation, drugs and debauchery, murderous stalkers and lonesome highways; and through it all you will want to dance like the Devil.
Review from MK Magazine:
Return Of The Voodoo Organist
www.voodooorganist.com
Every once in a great while you get a CD from an act you’ve never heard of, and when you hear the first song you know it’s going to be an instant favorite. This is one of those CDs. And I don’t get them very often. From the first song “Breakdown 2003” the Voodoo Organist (Scott Wexton) very unique organ style is the sound of a Sunday morning church service in Hell, in a very light manner. His vocal stylings are like that of Mojo Nixon, Tom Waits and Nick Cave wrapped up in one package. It has a very 50’s b-movie soundtrack aura sounding as if it would be something that could very well be Tim Burton’s dream lounge lizard.
All organ and vocals over drum tracks and Maracas this is going to be party music for my events for a long time to come. Some of the songs sound like a fire and brimstone Pentecostal Bible thumper is going to scare the bejesus out of you and sometimes as in the “Pitchfork Man” just makes you want to put on a costume and dance around a candle lit room with your mushroom eating friends. “Today is Not the Day” has a southwestern flavor that urges you to get up and snap your fingers, clap your hands and click your feet.
But to clearly get the message I get every time I play the Voodoo Organist has to be heard to understand. Take it from me, no matter what you’re into, you cannot help but get into the music and can’t help but play it over and over. Everyone I’ve played it for agrees, and there is no way I’m lending this one out, as I may never get it back.
This CD receives MK’s highest recommendation for purchase so far this year. —Alex Zander