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All the Way from Outer Space... and further than that!
How do you describe something like this when the words haven't been invented yet? Freaky, funky, rhythmic, and punky. If you want to know what’s past the universe, it just might be the substance that created Buzz Forward and Space Boy.
Cruisin’ takes you on a trip into their natural habitat and leaves you floating out there waiting for the next passing ship or song to come along and bring you home. It’s an inexpensive ticket, and you won’t soon forget the experience. Freedom broke free of the expectations of normal radio songs. It was full of musical diversions from observations during one of their apparent visits to my favorite country on modern-day (from our perspective) planet Earth. Buzz Forward and Space Boy claim to be “not from around here”. Well, if they are, they don’t sound like it. They apparently don’t know that songs are supposed to be boring and just like every other song. Mainstream is definitely NOT in their native vocabulary. Medieval Song must have been composed on an trip to Earth during one of its earlier eras.
I could see a loyal following for them, but not everyone would be enlightened enough to appreciate this CD. It’s not for those who get motion sick or react badly to temporal distortion. It sounds like a mixture of styles, reminiscent of Adam Ant, the 60s Beatles clones, punk, rockabilly, and “Elton-Genesis” after having been beamed towards Jupiter and bounced back all intermingled and updated. If David Bowie and Andy Warhol had a mutant, clone-child, he might produce music something like this.
Nomad sounds like the aural black box of a trip across the galaxy made by a young Jimi Hendrix band. The sirens in WDOZ bring visions of being lost among asteroids and being beckoned to your death by beautiful space beings. Buzz Forward must have fast-forwarded to the future to get the inspiration for this effort. I would definitely expect to hear more unusual and interesting things from these beings in the future. I'm anxious for another visit from them.
This CD is available at http://www.CDBaby.com/cd/bfsb, and is being played on http://m4Radio.com/stream.
Once again, I'm filling in for Janice. I look forward to her return.
Enjoy,
JT
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