Brian Waters possesses everything you could ever want from a rock n roll frontman: unshakeable self-belief bordering on arrogance, diverse taste (this LA trio cover Grandmaster Flashs The Message in a swampabilly style here, while Sneak Around is a Suicide co-write) and an on-stage habit of copping the moves of James Brown and Mick Jagger while hunched over his Telecaster peeling off dirty swamp wah-licks. Comparisons with Jon Spencer have been made, but only because its shorter than reeling off a list of references that includes the goggle-eyed pop smarts of Outkasts Andre 3000, the beat psycho of The Zombies and the pumping proto-garage of The Gories and The Stooges. Here is an instant record collection and sweat-drenched history lesson, and it fully deserves the title theyve given it.
-Gillian Nash[LOGO Magazine]
" IMPOSSIBLY beautiful woman and equally glorious music! A landscape of beautiful sandy beaches mixed with a steady diet of be-bop, folk, afro-latin, soul, blues & gospel music gave MAYA the ingredients to create her own sound which resonates through a variety of genres." - Featuring Deacon Jones (John Lee Hooker); Larry Campbell (Levon Helm); Skip Edwards (Lucinda Williams); Jerry Jumonville (Dr. John); Tony Gilkyson (Bob Dylan); Danny 'Kootch' Kortchmar (Carole King); Jimmy Cobb (Miles Davis), Marcy Levy (Eric Clapton); The Reverend Lois Dejean's NOLA Gospel Choir, Sir Tony Martin, etc... " Produced by Fabian Jolivet -
"I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state. Apart from practical consideration, my awareness of the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power no matter how modest. I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustain -- especially from the development of a narrow nationalism within our own ranks, against which we have already had to fight strongly, even without a Jewish state." -- Albert Einstein, 1932.
"My sympathies are all with the Jews...But my sympathy does not blind me to the requirements of justice. The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me...Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct. The mandates have no sanction but that of the last war. Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home. " -- Gandhi, 1938
Brian Waters possesses everything you could ever want from a rock n roll frontman: unshakeable self-belief bordering on arrogance, diverse taste (this LA trio cover Grandmaster Flashs The Message in a swampabilly style here, while Sneak Around is a Suicide co-write) and an on-stage habit of copping the moves of James Brown and Mick Jagger while hunched over his Telecaster peeling off dirty swamp wah-licks. Comparisons with Jon Spencer have been made, but only because its shorter than reeling off a list of references that includes the goggle-eyed pop smarts of Outkasts Andre 3000, the beat psycho of The Zombies and the pumping proto-garage of The Gories and The Stooges. Here is an instant record collection and sweat-drenched history lesson, and it fully deserves the title theyve given it.
-Gillian Nash[
