Word: funke
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...like Jane's Addiction; Farrell has changed bands, but he hasn't changed his tune. Thematically, however, the new band seems more assured, unafraid to comment on current events. There's also a sense of rhythmic joy about this album. Farrell has long experimented with rock and funk, and on Porno funk wins the day; the songs are buoyed by jubilant urban and third-world percussion. This is music to savor. Sit back and get yourself relaxed...
From the streamlined funk of Tomorrow's Girls to the bouncy saunter of Countermoon, the songs find a groove and gather momentum as breezy vocals and serpentine horn charts glide over a swinging rhythm section. Trans-Island Skyway builds from a muttering bass line and ice-cool finger snaps to an exhilarating joyride that derives part of its thrill from the danger lurking around the next bend. When Fagen sings, "Strap in tight cause it's a long sweet ride," it's like speeding in a convertible with the top down...
...crowds paraded out of the Dunster dining hall, quivering with funk aftershocks, it was obvious that the Soulful Light, "conceptualized, visualized, and realized" by Norcott had reached the multitudes. Amen...
...sound was standard funk, with grinding grooves punctuated by horn blasts and organ riffs and Norcott in call-and-response with his backup singers. But standard funk, by its very funkiness, makes for a booty-shaking jam. Even Funkistopholes, played by Seth Mnookin, the vanquished evil anti-funk, was witnessed in the audience grooving to the tunes of his nemesis...
...Missionary Monk" almost brought the audience to tears with a heartfelt sermon backed by a string trio; the audience could only express its rapture with exclamations of "Cello! Cello!" Then it was funk, funk, funk, and more funk, with the full power of the band, horns, and "Celestial Chorus" cruising alongside the "Monk...