Little Scream
The Heron and the FoxThe Golden Record 2011 via Secretly Canadian
Out 2/14/12
Everything "indie" this year has a sax solo. It is the year of the sax!
There's six weeks to go before the singer Lana Del Rey releases her major-label debut, and the backlash is already ferocious. The indie-blog haters insist she's fake, a cosmetically augmented poseur who is the oversexed product of major-label Machiavellis, without whom she'd be nothing. What's perhaps more accurate to say is that Del Rey knows the value of a glamorous persona.
Texier is a self-taught jazz bassist, crediting Wilbur Ware most as an influence. Throughout the 1970s Texier remained active in Europe on the jazz scene, performing with musicians such as Gordon Beck, John Abercrombie and Didier Lockwood, among others.