MINGUS, CHARLIE – TIJUANA MOODS Gangsta Rap with wizard of weird Lo’Spider

with wizard of weird Lo’Spider at Swampland in Toulouse

Lead singer Davey Havok’s desperate shrills backed up by huge gang vocals

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It’s likely to leave newcomers to the delights of Eastern bloc punk wanting more and

MINGUS, CHARLIE – TIJUANA MOODS Gangsta Rap with wizard of weird Lo’SpiderAll the music in this album was written during a very blue period in my life, the bassist Charles Mingus observed in the liner notes to Tijuana Moods. Recorded a little over 60 years ago, on July 18 and August 6, 1957, its an album that remains unique not only in the Mingus discography but also in jazz as a whole. Less an expression of Mexican musical influence than a personal evocation of a place, the album belongs to a vibrant category of border