{"id":21723,"date":"2023-04-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=21723"},"modified":"2023-04-10T07:48:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T07:48:48","slug":"mad-juana-skin-of-my-teeth-svart-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=21723","title":{"rendered":"Mad Juana – \u2018Skin Of My Teeth\u2019 (Svart Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Well, this is timely. Having just finished reading Sami Yaffa\u2019s excellent autobiography, and whilst waiting for his upcoming second solo album, Svart Records have reissued Mad Juana\u2019s debut album. Originally released in 1997, this project by Sami and Karmen Guy is perhaps better suited to today\u2019s more tolerant musical climate. It certainly had people puzzled on release, as Sami mixed influences from around the world, having spent most of his life on the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From \u20186 Inch Ditch\u2019 onwards, with its sparse, Bo Diddley rhythm and percussion, it is a hypnotic ride. If you like The Urban Voodoo Machine, you\u2019ll want hear this. \u2018Festival Of Dreams\u2019 introduces fretless bass to the sound, another left-turn; Sami was keen to make music without the boundaries of his past, and this remains one of his proudest moments. With hindsight, you can understand why. Recorded on a shoestring budget between Mallorca and Finland, ably assisted by percussionist Affe Forsman, they successfully merged Hispanic, European and Arabic chords and scales; \u2018Stronghand Mo\u2019 creating a mantra-like riff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The percussion on \u2018Flesh\u2019 is reminiscent of \u2018Tin Drum\u2019 era Japan, and Karmen has a vocal not unlike P J Harvey on \u20181000 x More\u2019 and \u2018No End\u2019, the latter turning up the volume. It demands your attention. \u2018Red Sea\u2019 has a more traditional acoustic rhythm that could be The Waterboys, while closer \u2018Spell\u2019 is atmospheric enough to be a film soundtrack starring Harry Dean Stanton. If you understand what I\u2019m blathering on about, search this out now. Remastered, and with 5 previously unreleased demos, this showed the world that Sami Yaffa was much more than \u201cjust a bassist\u201d. We\u2019re only just catching up with him now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author: Martin Chamarette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, this is timely. Having just finished reading Sami Yaffa\u2019s excellent autobiography, and whilst waiting for his upcoming second solo album, Svart Records have reissued Mad Juana\u2019s debut album. Originally released in 1997, this project by Sami and Karmen Guy is perhaps better suited to today\u2019s more tolerant musical climate. It certainly had people puzzled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[8179,1800,309,2399],"class_list":["post-21723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-mad-juana","tag-martin-chamarette","tag-sami-yaffa","tag-svart-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21752,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21723\/revisions\/21752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}