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• Artist: Pajo
• Album: Pajo
• Label: Drag City
• Year of Release: 2005
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• Reviewed by: patchen on 2006-01-06

The great David Pajo has been with us in many incarnations, most visibly as the multi-instrumentalist Papa M, and as bassist for Billy Corgan’s short-lived Zwan. In both capacities Pajo showed an amazing depth of feeling and keen eye for emotional fault-lines. Who’d have thought that on his first record under his own name he would try and express those talents like a sideman on a America record? Clearly Pajo is going for a disjointed acoustic feel not unlike The White Album. More often, these songs are too light for their ambition, and sound like John Lennon outtakes from Mind Games. But even John himself would never do spoken word sections unless he was really sure mommy would approve. Despite that misstep and the fact that many of the songs aim for the sublime and only reach Donovan, I’ll keep my hat in Pajo’s corner. His Papa M work will save your life, and his bass sure did save Zwan. I’ll be waiting for the next record.

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