Brown Rice 09/17/1990 frenetic "What's the Buzz

frenetic "What's the Buzz

Ben Arrindell

If you're an eager follower of Rateliff & the Night Sweats

but where his previous epics WANT ONE and WANT TWO were concept albums about addiction and emotional frailty

Brown Rice 09/17/1990 frenetic "What's the BuzzThis was digitally remastered. If Eternal Rhythm was Don Cherry's world fusion masterpiece of the '60s, then Brown Rice is its equivalent for the '70s. But where Eternal Rhythm set global influences in a free jazz framework, Brown Rice's core sound is substantially different, wedding Indian, African, and Arabic music to Miles Davis' electrified jazz rock innovations. And although purists will likely react here the same way they did to post Bitches