Red Red Meat There's A Star Above The Manger Tonight

With their final album, Chicago-based quartet Red Red Meat completed a journey started in the early ¬90s, concluding a study in evolution, moving from their shambolic blues rock roots into an experimental combo capable of synthesizing ¬a field recording with a Can aesthetic. Yet, There¬s a Star Above the Manger Tonight is the sound of a band blooming even as it folds in ¬ finding Tim Rutilli, Brian Deck, Ben Massarella, and Tim Hurley incorporating samplers, loops, and computers, marrying disparate threads of hip-hop, Krautrock, and dub to ¬folk forms, stomp and blues business.¬\n\n¬As a single piece of music it was kind of a real demonstration of where Red Red Meat was at the time, crossed with everything that we were playing around with that would eventually become Califone,¬ Massarella says. Self-produced in DIY fashion in the back room of BJ¬s Truck Stop, located located in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago near the seedy stockyards, where the band¬s members did double time wa