Embracing a low-fi, free
stylin' aesthetic, homegrown poets Adolfo Guzman Lopez and compatriots
Miguel-Angel Soria, [Adrian Arancibia] and Tomas Riley give out
buoyant shout-outs to their collective love for language. Starting
with the Taco Shop Poets' off-the-wall manifesto, the album launches
into a bilingual combo of smart, surreal observations on O.J.
Simpson ("O.J. O.J. O.J."), inequity between the haves-and-the-have-nots
("Nooks"), and barrio life ("July 4th in the Barrio").
The Taco Shop Poets will
give a free performance 7 p.m. Saturday [12/9/99] at the Culy
Trucking Warehouse downtown [San Diego, 338 7th Ave].
