John Cale - HoboSapiens (2003) {Or Music OR804042}
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© 2003 EMI Records / Or Music | OR 804042
Rock / Experimental Rock / Alternative
John Cale's reentry into the world of pop music is a contentious and accessible one. This is the Welsh iconoclast at his most elegant, energetic, and innovative. HoboSapiens finds Cale using samples as the base of all his tracks and using musicians to fill in his ideas - ideas that were firmly established melodically, lyrically, and texturally. There are a couple of dozen players here, including guitarists Joe Gore (Tom Waits, PJ Harvey) and Joel Mark, Eno (and his two daughters Darla and Irial), bassist Jeff Eyrich, a small choir of Italian voices, a choral quartet called A Tonal Choir, drummer Marco Giovino, and samples by a host of electro-wizards.
But it's not the collaborations that make the recording remarkable, it's the songs. Cale's sense of whimsy is back with a vengeance here. Check the gloriously loopy hook in "Reading My Mind" (one can hear just how deep Cale's influence on David Byrne went), the acoustic rock and irony in "Things," the skittering kit drum and string loops in "Look Horizon," the ethereal keyboard and sample darkness of "Magritte," the dreamy pop expressionism of "Archimedes," and the silly, angular Euro-funk in "Bicycle," with Eno's daughters giggling away. Throughout the 12 tracks on HoboSapiens, Cale's outlook is fantastical, nearly bright, and full of mystery and history, with philosophy, religion, quirkily cultural artifacts, and wry humor all woven together with thoroughly modern post-rock and pop music that is seamless yet full of angles and multidimensional yet full of attitude and grace, with a slippery Euro sheen roughed up by rugged U.K. shagginess. This is easily the best and most provocative recording Cale has made since Honi Soit. It's ironic that the two bravest, most original pop records of 2003 were made by old men: this one and Robert Wyatt's Cuckooland.
Personnel:John Cale: keyboards, guitars, electric viola, viola, vocals, backing vocals, samples, bass, harmonium
Andy Green: guitar, samples, additional production
Erik Sanko: bass, slack dulmicer
Joe Gore: guitar
Emil Miland: cello
Ryan Coseboom: samples
Mikael "Count" Eldridge: drum loops, samples
Marco Giovino: drums, percussion
Lance Doss: guitars, backing vocals
John Kurzweig: guitars
Joel Mark: guitars, bass
Jeff Eyrich: bass
Bill Swartz: drums
Eden Cale: spoken words
Dimitri Tokovoi: samples
Brian Foreman: bass
Shelley Harland: samples
Drum loop on "Bicycle" courtesy of
Brian Enoand others...tracklist:01 - Zen
02 - Reading My Mind
03 - Things
04 - Look Horizon
05 - Magritte
06 - Archimedes
07 - Caravan
08 - Bicycle
09 - Twilight Zone
10 - Letter from Abroad
11 - Things X
12 - Over Her Head
13 - Set Me Free (US Bonus Track)
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