Arto Lindsay: Cuidado Madame
Author: Jane Cornwell
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Musicians: |
Arto Lindsay (g) |
Label: |
Ponderosa Music & Art Pond12 |
Magazine Review Date: |
August/2017 |
RecordDate: |
2017 |
A skronking guitar, a voice like streaming silk, some skittering drum'n'bass and Arto Lindsay is back after 13 years, all the more refreshed for being away. Cuidado Madame (Caution, Madam) is a schizophrenic marriage of the two Lindsays: scary Arto, the New York punk experimentalist given to abstract noise, and sexy Arto, the Brazilian-born lover of samba and song, as cool and laidback as his alter ego is fierce. And with this pairing comes more duality, as the trance-y drum patterns of the syncretic Afro-Brazilian candomblé religion – the album's foundation – vie and blend with spiky riffs, staccato piano and shards of electronica. Opener ‘Grain By Grain’ sees Lindsay cooing sentiments like “I have drifted far enough away to confuse me with myself” over synth fractals and funky start-stop shuffles; ‘Arto Vs. Arto’, a sort of metaphorical wrestle between scary and sexy, sees the sneering, grunting former out on top. A work as dreamy as it is confronting – and surprisingly accessible, once you give in.

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