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Press : Rage Magazine, UK, September 1991

Interviewer: Andy Cowan
THE JAZZ BUTCHER

[album cover] Condition Blue (Creation Records)

Earlier this year, The Jazz Butcher discreetly slipped out an LP under the name The Black Eg. Stuffed with off-kilter humour, it's a far cry from the downbeat and desolate self-therapy of Condition Blue.

Here, Butchie tears himself to shreds, giving his heart a good kicking in the process. The brooding opens with [listen to Girls Say Yes]Girls Say Yes a sad, delicate lament that's cut from the same sorry cloth as [listen to Harlan]Harlan and the overlong [listen to Racheland]Racheland. There's still some light with the shade though; the upbeat [listen to She's A Yo Yo]She's A Yo Yo and [listen to Shirley Maclaine]Shirley Maclaine suggest he hasn't lost it totally.

"I've been bouncing of the wall, cos that's all I've got to work with," he confesses. Know the feeling.

Andy Cowan (Rage Sept '91)

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