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Gang - Donald Fagen :
Featured on Fresh
Trax Edition
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March 19th, 2006
After
suffering a case of what might be termed severe writer's block for a
good portion of the 80s, Donald Fagen, he of Steely Dan fame, appears
to be entering what may prove to be the most prolific part of his career.
The new millennium has already given rise to two new Dan projects and
with the release of Morph the Cat, the album represents Fagen's third
full creative outlet in the past six years.
Fagen had previously issued a pair of solo projects in 1981 and 1993
but with Morph the Cat, the album appears as the most recent in a very
powerful and at times deeply personal trilogy. To quote Fagen, "The
Nightfly is sort of looking from the standpoint of youth, "Fagen explains.
"Kamakiriad would be more about midlife. This new one is about endings
really." ... |