Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson

A Middle Pathnew

You haven't heard Isaac Hayes until you've heard Isaac Hayes sing "Baby I'm-A Want You."

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 11-04-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Isaac Hayes, Can You Dig It? The Ultimate Isaac Hayes

Inverse Americananew

While the fluid collective of Chicago musicians known as Pinetop Seven has never exactly produced the happiest music around, this is their darkest and most moving record to date.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 10-27-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Pinetop Seven, The Night's Bloom

Funky Stewnew

The best thing about Belize City Boil Up isn't the fact that it shines a light on a woefully underdocumented (and equally underappreciated) music scene.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 10-27-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Various Artists, Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up

A Rustic Personality Returnsnew

Although it's been 35 years since Vashti Bunyan last recorded an album, it doesn't sound as if a day has passed between that first disc (Just Another Diamond Day) and the new Lookaftering.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 10-27-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Vashti Bunyan, Lookaftering

A Playful Spiritnew

This full-length debut from Swedish ambientologist Henrik Jonsson is perplexing for a number of reasons.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 10-27-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Explains Freedom, Porn Sword Tobacco

Where Rivers and Gurus Convergenew

This documentary about a massive yet surprisingly unknown spiritual gathering shows 70 million enlightenment-seekers arriving in Allahabad, India, where three holy rivers (one of which is a mythical, nonphysical river) converge.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 10-21-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Nick Day, Maurizio Benazzio, Short Cut to Nirvana

Review of Work: Portrait-Robotnew

There are moments on Portrait-Robot – near the end of "Ma Boîte à Musique," for example – that find French electronicist Bertrand Burgalat locking into a beat-centric Euro-funk that could have been nicked from Fatboy Slim or Beck.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 09-30-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Bertrand Burgalat, Portrait-Robot

Shots: An American Photographer's Journal 1967-1972new

In a book filled with striking and provocative photos, perhaps the most striking and provocative is a shot of demonstrators behind a barricade during Nixon's 1969 inauguration.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 07-15-2005 | Nonfiction

Tags: David Fenton, Shots: An American Photographer's Journal 1967-1972

This Ain't No Disco: New Wave Album Coversnew

Lacking focus, organization and in some cases clean artwork, this book comes off as a pet project undertaken by a New Wave nerd who badly wants to legitimize her 20-year-old record collection by turning the album covers into objets d'art.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 07-15-2005 | Nonfiction

Tags: Jennifer McKnight Trontz, This Ain't No Disco: New Wave Album Covers

Maximo Parknew

"Apply Some Pressure" is how you've heard of Maximo Park, if you've heard of Maximo Park at all. The song is that odd confection known as "the perfect single"; it's as catchy and uniquely memorable as it's perfectly representative of today's sonic-zeitgeist.