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#sax

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Jeni Tehan

Thinking a bit earlier about some of my favourite tenor sax players and came to this conclusion:

Dexter Gordon: Feels like a friend who understands my problems, and is trying to make me feel better by sharing.

John Coltrane: Feels like a friend trying to get something off of his chest.

Wayne Shorter: Feels like a friend who shares my problems trying to get it out for both of us.

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#FortnightFridayMusic
Mar 07 2025
The prompt is Void

Romeo Void, “Never Say Never” from Benefactor, 1982

I’m highlighting this one song - perhaps #RomeoVoid’s most well-known, so least likely to need highlighting - because everything about it is so emblematic of the #PostPunk/ #NewWave of the early #80s: The scratching guitar adding texture more than melody, the pounding drums propelling the song without commenting or elaborating on it, the driving bass, as closest thing to a lead instrument, the disaffected, double-tracked spoken vocals, and for good measure, dollops of #sax punctuating the spiky proceedings with some full, shiny musicality.

When this hit my ears - crisp, snarky, and female-empowering - it was so refreshing, in a more spare, lean way than the wire-scrubbing-brush-to-the-ear of all-out #punk, as a caustic tool for dislodging the pablum of dentist-office muzak and commercial radio sludge that shrouded so much of life at the time.

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