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BATTLE HYMNS FOR CHILDREN SINGING Haysi Fantayzee has been a hit with English youth. It's a three
person group: singers Kate Garner and Jeremiah Healy backed by composer-instrumentalist
Paul Caplin. The group obviously preens over its counterculture
attitude; its official RCA Records bio recalls the story that Garner
met Healy when she found him "in a pile of snoozing scruffs."
Their album voices a lot of the surly discontent of American acid
rock bands of the '60s, but much of it is couched in vaguely Caribbean
post-reggae musical idioms. Sabres Of Paradise is about suicide-
the "sabres" are razor blades. More Money is about "a
fool consumer". John Wayne Is Big Leggy is about racism and
sexism. It comes as a great relief to have a couple of tunes devoted
to only lust and sex- Sister Friction and Shoofly Love. There's
really not much fun in this group's music, however infectious the
rhythmns. They do, though, seem to represent an unrest that demands
to be recognized.
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