Sentridoh

***Over the course of the first four years of the '90s, Shrimper released three cassette-only releases by LOU BARLOW & HIS SENTRIDOH. Losing Losers was reissued on double-LP and CD some eight or so years back, while Wasted Pieces and Some of the Best/Most of the Worst... have been out of print for years, moping around eBay of late asking for $ 35 here, $ 52 there. After dubbing thousands of copies of the cassette from second-generation UR60 tapes, the Shrimper brain trust fished out the original sequenced masters, shipped them back to Lou B to resequence and add out-of-print Sentridoh recordings to, and assembled the motherlode onto a single disc. The tracks mine the ennui and melancholy one might expect from Mr. Barlow, but there are also orchestrated instrumentals (one of which made it into the Kids film, but not on the soundtrack), Moondog beats, and a cappella treachery. Lou was on the road this spring and early summer, touring behind the New Folk Implosion record, sprinkling some solo dates here and there, and performing songs from his self-released Lou B's Free Sentridoh CD from last year as well as material from the days of yore.