Author: ARNO

Format: Import

Release Date: 25-02-2002

Details: Amazon.ca Following a best-of collection, a colorful summary of a thirty-year career, the man with three first names—Arno Charles Ernest—continues to dissect daily life to a funfair tune interspersed with flourishes of banjo and accordion. Hailed as the European Tom Waits, Arno celebrates his 25th album by energetically shaking up his rhythm 'n' blues roots in search of the ghosts of Kurt Weill and Sonny Boy Williamson. Under the watchful eye of Pete Briquette, a regular witness to Tricky's hallucinated ramblings, he lays his raspy "Neither happy nor unhappy" singer's voice over eternal rock-blues laments. He keeps "his nose in the air, his butt on the ground" and attacks the surrounding gloom with powerful acoustic ballads ("I'm not in Love"), brass band tunes ("Il est tombé du ciel"), and a cover of the Rolling Stones ("Mother's Little Helper"). The contradiction near you, in French, English, and Flemish. --Sabrina Silamo

UPC: 724381195925

EAN: 0724381195925

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: New