The listener has the occasional chance to hear an album where the talent and skill of the musicians is so obvious that it can't helped but being commented on first thing.
This is one of those times.
The gentlmen behind Portland OR's Professor Gall are remarkably gifted and well trained. Together they focus their facilities into the cohesive and entertaining collection of songs that is "Intravenous Delusion".
Like many art-rockers Professor Gall clearly owes a tip-of-the-hat to the freak-out grand-daddy: Frank Zappa.
He's clearly the spiritual mentor to the blues/funk/soul rock that acts as the basis for the songs on this CD and the jazzy-spazziness of the compositions conjure the late/great Zappa at his best and most accessible. This provides a good (and appropriately malleable) skeleton for the band to build songs around.
There's a circus feel to this album- an anything goes as long as you're entertained quality that means klezmer is as welcome to the party as bluegrass, that understands that "art" does not mean inaccessible. This is an album with depth, but also one you can wade in and still enjoy.
