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ALTERNATIVE PRESS
THE CAKEKITCHEN
World of Sand
If 1991´s Time Flowing Backwards made you salivate, you´ll have
to use a drool cup when listening to the Cakekitchen´s newest,
World of Sand. Honest. New Zealander Graeme Jefferies´guitar
sound is akin to a shaft of sunlight which has the power to make
dust particles audible. The dust congeals magnetically to his guitar
amp and becomes shards of diamonds, glass and needles. Add great
musicanship from drummer Robert Key and bassist Rachael King
and you have an unparalleled second release.
“Ordeal by Water,”the first of these ten gems, is as magestic as
the opening chord progression of the Byrd´s “Eight Miles High”
but with more teeth. The tribal gallop of the drums on “Walking on
Glass” issues a more brittle guitar fuzz to haze Jefferies hypnotic
larynx rumblings. Anything but melodramatic, the imagery on “Glass”
includes open skies, cobwebs, singing workers, trains, insects and
air. The verses of “This Perfect Day” are brutal-crisp guitar chunks,
minimal drums and a sliding bass line. “Don´t be fooled by the Label”
includes opulent John Caleish viola work. Hard to believe there´s not
one clunker on this release, but there isn´t.
Where Time Flowing Backwards was diverse with piano, acoustic
and electric guitar, World of Sand is thick with electric guitar and
usually darker sounding (save the xylophone on “Dogs and Cats”).
It´s the remaining material recorded by this New Zealand trio that,
alas, no longer has the same lineup. Mr Jefferies recently relocated
to London and hired two new Cakekitcheners. So much for the second
album jinx.(Homestead, P.O.Box 800, Rockville Centre NY11571)
- Pal Norman
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