Canadian Terry Watada's 2-LP Night's Disgrace

This album was a big leap of faith, since the description, visible here in our database, includes the reference to avant-garde, which sometimes makes us queasy of course when applied to music, but is sometimes a harbinger of good things to come.  Note that Night's Disgrace seems to be the backing band, which is quite good overall especially in the electric moments, to the Canadian author and poet Terry Watada.  His compositions though which I presume are the singer-songwriter type ones on this 2-LP set are not that great, making it unrealistic for me to purchase any of the earlier 70s albums from him, maybe I'm wrong, but I won't be the one to find out.

The first side is given over to a kind of amateurish jazz imitation, the kind you see in bad movies at piano bar scenes.  Thereafter there is quite a bit of blues and the aforementioned SSW material, even a 1950s doo-wop throwback piece of trash, but usually the electric guitar material is what stands out here.  A bit too much filler, in fact, like the crab cakes we are used to getting at the average steakhouse when you're more than 200 miles away from the East Coast.  Consider the properly-composed song called City of Lights as an ex. of the electric material:





But also, the acoustic song called Only Dreams really grew on me, although its 2-chord simplicity makes it a bit embarassing to admit:




There is also a ten-minute long jam at the end to side c which is really enjoyable but I didn't sample due to its length, the kind of thing usually described in record reviews as 'amazing freaky swirling fuzzed-out mad jam session psych music highly extremely long-sought after by the discerning record-collectors' --from their basements, as my wife so loves to say.
Its refrain is the highly unfortunate "maverick Chinaman, goin' down to Chinatown" which if I were you, I wouldn't dare play out loud in case someone makes some ignorant comment about 'that Chinese virus'...  Today by sheer numbers alone, we really should call it the American virus...  And since unlike the politicians we have an appreciation for irony here, we could even say, no we meant that purely metaphorically.
Yeah, we're all in this together, people.  There's no going back now.

It's interesting though as an experiment in human behaviour, I guess: if aliens attacked us from another planet, we would be more busy fighting each other than fighting off the extraterrestrial threat--that much is obvious to me, unlike what the sci-fi movies suggested (Independence Day?).
The US administration most likely would try to make a deal with the killing aliens: if you spare us and make us your slaves, you guys can have Africa, the whole continent... Put Jared Kushner in charge of that one again.  He's good.  He solved mideast peace.  He's handsome.  He's tall!

So aliens, if you're reading this: Divide and Conquer works on us real good.