Bloodline

"Psychedelic-South American-Desert rock, and just about a hundred other things, from two members of Howe Gelb's country rock behemoth Giant Sand. Over their three decades Giant Sand have spawned innumerable other bands, most successfully John Convertino and Joey Burns' Calexico, but best of all Gelb's own one album project OP8. This time it's guitarists Brian Lopez and Gabriel Sullivan striking out on their own, taking their Peruvian Cumbia combo Chicha Dust into rock and roll territory ... The story this album tells (and the story has to be a western, not just for the sun-scorched, borderland palate of the music, but for its toughness, its air of danger, and for the deadpan voices surfacing throughout) is in snatches of the music ... Terse in approach, but richly contoured musically and with a scale that feels cinematic - Bloodline goes after an atmosphere and realizes it vividly".

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