Blues for sure, but then experiment-style, and not unimportant, with a high Tom Waits contents. This is how you could describe the album ‘Fifteen Raindrops In An Ocean Of Blues Tales’ in a nutshell.
Multi-instrumentalist Paul Karapiperis (voice, mouthorgan, percussion, acoustic and steel guitar) brought out an album once before with his band Small Blues Trap. The album “Crossroad Ritual”, from 2004, was then welcomed by Bobtjes Blues Pages, as well as a whole lot of other blueszines- and magazines with praising critics.
Paul and band have their home in Malesina (a city in Phthiotis, central Greece).
This new CD seems to be Paul’s solo project.
That Paul is a great mouthorgan player straightaway shows in the first song (with title) ‘Welcome On Board! Clap Your Hands’. A Mississippi Delta blues song which shines by his simplicity and purity.
Also very nice is ‘Crazy Tones’ which has a really jazzy undertone.
A lot of songs have got something mythical about them.
So has ‘A Voodoo Woman Can...’, (mainly due to Paul’s steel-guitar sound), an almost hynothic effect.
Something else that can be said about the song ‘S.B.T’.
Just as on the previous CD Paul and band made use of percussion attributes. This time, again it’s enjoyable with Paul’s smoky heavy voice.
The other band members Panagiotis Daras (guitar), Lefteris Besios (bass) and pianist/keyboard player Sotiris Kouroutis know their task, which means they just limit themselves to the essential. Assist wherever necessary and for the rest let the master do his own thing.
OK, maybe not a CD to everyone’s liking. But the blues lover who likes a bit of experimenting will know how to appreciate it.
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