In Brief
*** Jac Zinder, “Chairs I Have Known,” Catasonic. As a musician, Zinder channeled the eclectic, cheesy tastes he cultivated as operator of the Fuzzyland club into a neo-art-lounge style. This memorial collection (Zinder died in a 1994 car crash) is marked more by quirkiness than invention. But there’s an affectionate warmth, especially in a version of Brian Wilson’s instrumental “Pet Sounds.”
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