New Street Rec.
Juju B Solomon (US,2007)**°
Juju B Solomon settled in an obscure industrial city in India with a job in the textile export industry. After this experience, he returned to Atlanta and had the wish to write down his experiences of being an immigrant in India in a book, that resulted in this musical diary. The music is intimately sung, with simple guitar. The idea sounds very interesting, but the songs are so personal and random diary-like about direct on the spot confrontations and immediate thoughts, no matter how superficial or embarrassing, in the end some of these experiences have not too much to add or contribute, or no real philosophical value to conclude with, which is a bit disappointing. The experience must have been very direct like a child, like the fairytale of 'Little Thumb' (English name?) in the woods (from the Grimm stories). Never the less the music sounds more poetic than this, expressed with gentleness and a certain charm, or how a sole person can survive somewhere where he hardly belongs.
