Piero Scaruffi's review of:

COXA
Richard Bone

     Coxa (Quirkworks, 1999) is a vastly improved version of Electropica. Bone keeps swinging between ambient music and this electronic pop-jazz format. No doubt this is a "lighter" genre, but Bone achieves a superb sense of elegance and psychological depth with Garden and 47 Youth Street. Even the mellow singalong themes of Playa Six and Dragneta My Love, while anchored to a simple refrain and too friendly to cocktail music, suggest subliminal moods. This is an album full of surprises, including a faithful revival of the big-band sound (Amorita Dive and What If). It stands as Bone's masterpiece in the "popular" genre.