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Icarus Fijaka (Recordings of Substance/Fusion III) So these two guys who make up Icarus went to Sarajevo to host a series of DJ workshops and kept a musical diary of their time there, which then became this album. "Fijaka" is Bosnian for "waste of time." I don't know if that's how they feel about their time spent there, but if the tunes on this CD are any indication, I'd have to say their experience left them feeling a little uneasy. Fijaka is a heady excursion into ambient drum & bass, dark but not heavy with sparse drums that roll out over simple, chilling melodies. 7/10 (Krista)
Fantomas Self-titled (Ipecac)
Sarah Vaughn In the City of Lights (Justin Time/Fusion III) This is the first authorized CD of previously unreleased material to be issued since Vaughn's death in 1990. It catches her in top form for more than 90 minutes at a concert held in Paris on November 2, 1985, superbly backed by Frank Collett, Bob Maize and Harold Jones, in a program of great standards by the likes of the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Harry Warren and Stephen Sondheim. 8.5/10 (Len Dobbin)
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Mike Patton is back! But this ain't no Faith No More or Mr. Bungle (although, Patton junkies, a nouveau of the latter is in the works). No sir, this be Fantomas, named after a great old Mexican movie villain with bad make-up. Patton, psycho that he is, has recruited the likes of Buzz Osborne (guitarist and fuzzy frontman of the Melvins), Trevor Dunn (bassist and partner-in-slime from Mr. Bungle), and ex-Slayer cowskin-pummeler Dave Lombardo. Fantomas, released on Patton's own label, is a twisted journey into the recesses of the man's mile-a-minute mind, a representation of his music's anatomy, extremely experimental, non-linear and smacking of musique actuelle. Definitely not for the lowbrow. 8/10 (Lateef Martin)