REVIEW :: RICK WILLIAMS :: SIAMESE CONNECTION
Rick Williams has firstly compiled his own recording history for posterity. On CD reissues of his teenage cassette goofiness on Jiving Around and Brownpeace's Save The Roaches (the insects, not anything that need be clipped), tape hiss is unavoidably audible but sometimes adds to the rudimentary charm. More recently, Siamese Connection reflects upon his time in Thailand (he's also lived in China, the Phillipines and elsehwere). He does so as a kind of
lo-fi Beck, sometimes with faux arch British accent and a sense of humor obsessed with food ("Bad BBQ Sandwich At Taste Of Chicago Blues", "Xpressway To Yr Mango", "Emergency Noodle Theme"). His instrumentals are catchy in a systems music-meets baroque doodliness. An outside producer could help this redheaded world traveler focus, but there's still enough, here, of rough, idiosyncratic delight to picque the interest of dwellers of the deep indie-scape.

-Jamie Rake, "the bohemian aesthetic", March 2006

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