I came across this track on You tube recently. Recorded live it was originally a broadcast performance made during lockdown, that was then released as an album. The tracks on the live recording are all taken from their 2020 Loco album. Taxi Guy represents in many ways a galloping run through of all the various musical influences and tropes that have entered into the A Certain Ratio discography over the decades. Dedicated to Denise Johnson, an ACR stalwart vocalist who died at 56 in that year. Opening with the lollop of a thumping drum, it develops into a thrilling musical fizz of smooth sax, the snappy stick rhythm of a snare drum, with flavella flourishes, whistles and cow bells. Part joyous carnival celebration and part a gently lyrical ride, as though you are being driven in the back of a cab, momentarily dropping in and out of a latin inflected soundscape, on a beautifully clear dawn morning in Brazil. I find it utterly entrancing.
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