Celebration, Celebration (4AD)A great record from this Baltimore-based group. A few friends told me about this one a while back and I finally got my hands on it. I suggest you do the same.
Jean Leclerc, Mexico (Roi Ponpon)This is where Montréal's Jean Leloup has been hiding. Not only has he returned to his birth name—and his birth right: poetry—he also returned to the guitar jams I used to sway back in forth within large crowds at his concerts. Perhaps not an entry point (if he's news to you), but a damn fine record. Worth breaking out those note books from your French classes. His writing is brilliant.
