We’ve not heard from Tal for a while after Plastic Starfish so as soon as I saw this new 12”, I was right on it.

‘Crawling Up The Spout’ is a groovy Afro-funk-disco guitar lead track with the ‘surprise’ sample by Tony Joe White, I’m no great fan of Mr. White, but I did hear an interview with him some time ago and I could listen to his gravelly voice all day. Tal’s used some vocal from ‘Stud-Spider’ as his inspiration here for some non-arachnophobia appreciation.

On the remix front, Japan’s jet setter ALTZ weaves jazzy funk path that’s all over the place and it’s quite a grower with the disco blips and bleeps experimental house crew; one for loose joints this one.

Kidgusto out of Washington DC likes a TrueGrooves break and there’s some more jazz-funk wobble by Zamali making this a real value for money 12”.

The guys at Supperclub are making Alan ‘Jealousy’ Luna happy as Tal is book up for the San Francisco venue at the end of April (along with Ursula 1000 who was on Pathaan’s Supperclub Beauty album) and there seems lots of Tal vinyl action planned including a release of ‘Party Block Rocker’ (out this week on juno - see below) and a studio project with Anthony Mansfield!

Forthcoming gigs:
12 Mar 2009 JUKE JOINT @ HOPMONK w/ All Good Funk Alliance & Malarkey Sebastopol, California
14 Mar 2009 FUNKONNECTION @ TRIPLE CROWN w/ All Good Funk Alliance, Motion Potion & Malarkey San Francisco, California
25 Apr 2009 @ SUPPERCLUB w/ Ursula 1000 & Laird, San Francisco, California

Reviewed: Tal M. Klein - Crawling Up The Spout (Aniligital Music) Cat. No.ALG-024 Release date: 23.02.2009
Tracklisting:
A1 Crawling Up The Spout (Tal’s Original Mix)
A2 Crawling Up The Spout (ALTZ Remix)
B1 Crawling Up The Spout (KidGusto Remix)
B2 Crawling Up The Spout (Zamali Remix)

Links:
www.myspace.com/plasticstarfish
Manmade Remixed Vol 1 Cat. No. MM03 Release date: 2nd March 2009 www.juno.co.uk
Tal’s remix of Issa Bagayogo’s Poye
http://tal.blogs.friendster.com/the_new_von_dutch
www.lastrum.co.jp/altz
www.myspace.com/altzmusica
www.truegrooves.com
www.myspace.com/anthonymansfield