Mostly Other People Do The Killing

Mostly Other People Do The Killing
"Shamokin!!!"
2007 (Hot Cup)

1. Handsome Eddy - 05:51
2. The Hop Bottom Hop - 08:28
3. Shamokin - 03:50
4. Dunkelbergers - 07:48
5. Factoryville - 04:51
6. Lover - 04:33
7. Andover - 03:50
8. Evans City - 06:41
9. Baden - 06:37
10. A Night in Tunisia - 21:32

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Review from Wire Magazine (December 2007):
"Oliver Sacks’s collection of clinical case studies The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, which inspired an unsuccessful Michael Nyman opera, has the story of Witty Ticcy Ray, a “weekend jazz drummer” fuelled by Tourette’s Syndrome. During the week he’s calmed by haldol, but he needs his ticcing energy for drumming and leaves off treatment at weekends. Kevin Shea’s spasmodic percussion assaults on “The Hop Bottom Hop”, from the marvellous new album by Moppa Elliott’s Mostly Other People Do The Killing, made me recall Witty Ticcy. In this Mingus/free jazz parody, Shea meshes insanely with funky old-time pizzicato – imitating players from the pre-amplified era – from bassist and leader Moppa Elliott, whose stutters mimic turntablism and plunderphonics, apparently in real time, while alto saxist Jon Irabagon pours out beautifully judged bluesy licks."