California singer/instrumentalist Michael Zapruder is an odd duck. His music is sophisticated, yet slightly off-kilter at the same time.
Mellow and moody, Zapruder's new album Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope immediately submerges you in a hypnotic whir of effects and loops. Top these off with well placed woodwinds ("Ads For Feelings") and tribal rhythms ("Bang On a Drum") and you get a pretty eclectic array of sounds.
In vocal delivery and feel, Zapruder swings back and forth between Rufus Wainwright ("Can't Bring You Home") and a darker, ominous Leonard Cohen ("Black Wine").
After repeated listening to the album one question remains, does Zapruder have any relation to the guy who famously filmed the JFK assassination?
Best tracks: "Black Wine", "Ads For Feelings"
Track listing for Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope:
- Happy New Year
- Lucy's Handmade Paper
- Ads For Feelings- MP3
- Can't Bring You Home
- Black Wine
- Harbor Saints
- South Kenosha
- Bang On a Drum
- White Raven Sails
- Second Sunday In Ordinary Time
- Experimental Film
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