BILL FRISELL / VERNON REID

Smash & Scatteration

(Minor Music) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Deliriously oddball 1984 encounter that pits Frisell’s haunting, haltering sound against the raunchier Reid, who was en route from Defunkt and Decoding Society to Living Colour at the time. Frisell’s bent and splayed electric guitar, complemented by jaunty acoustic guitar and the strange sonorities of the guitar synth, finds counterpoint in Reid’s more raw guitar, squiggling electronics, synth drums beats, and an occasional hoe-downing banjo.