This week’s Record Club entry was mailed to us (figuratively) by Euclid Records
“In ballad and verse, Kali tunes in a delightful, whimsical world of fantasy and slips into the transparent land of wide-eyed forest children, including: Leprechauns, dwarfs, witches, warlocks, gremlins, gnomes and trolls.”
Fritz: It’s waayy to early in the morning to be listening to this. It sounds like someone in an opium den in India in the 1960s was trying to write a children’s book.
Sarah: So “Kali Bahlu takes the forest children on a journey of Cosmic Remembrance.” Sounds to me more like something I’d punish my children with.
Josh: But it’s almost…funny. Like, I want to see how long I can listen to this before cracking up or hurling the record across the room. This woman’s totally nuts.
Annie: I tuned out after “Jesus’ sign is the skull and crossbones.”
Sarah: So if that’s his sign, does that mean she hates Jesus?
Josh: Could just mean she wishes Jesus was a pirate. I wonder why “Moses’ color is carrot orange” and “Confuscious’ color is sky light blue.”
Sarah: It’s curious that, for an Indian, spiritual-themed album, Kali uses a lot of American-sounding diction. I can’t imagine Leprechauns in India.
Fritz: Or giant robots – that sounds more Japanese. On another note, I do like the sitars and tambourines though. They strangely accent Kali’s excited, storytelling/singing tone, and really make this trippy.
Josh: Yeah, I think this will be a good record for our collection. Diversity’s a good thing. Even if it’s only to scare away people who are thinking about working for us.
The Eleven Record Club is sponsored in part by your local St. Louis record stores, Vintage Vinyl, Euclid Records, APOP Records, and Phono Mode.
