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...Jorge A. Aja Espil Ambassador of Argentina Washington...
...predictability is irritating as the band crafts each record and each song to sound slightly different than the last: Royal Scam ushered in horn sections; Aja added extended orchestration. Some call Gaucho the quintessential Steely Dan. It "took three years to make," the ads brag. The ads don't mention the contract dispute and auto accident that actually delayed the album. You're supposed to think Dan put more thought into Gaucho than the albums it churned out annually. Not so. When Becker and Fagen assemble an album, it's like a political party picking a presidential candidate: the question...
TAGEN IS THE artistic anchor in Aja: he plays synthesizer, writes, and sings backup vocals (the credits list no lead vocals, a forthright statement about instrumental priority) on every...
Steely Dan's musical versatility emerges on the first cut, "Black Cow." The electric piano, clavinet, sax and synthesizer take charge from the upbeat and become hewn into a cogent sound that becomes Aja...
...Aja, for every doubt there is a hope. The strides this group makes with each consecutive album amazes me and promises. And, there are also Steeley Dan's own reassurances...