Description

"Cooder creates with Chandler-esque pepper and a watch for identity." — Moving StoneLos Angeles Reports is just a assortment of freely connected, noir-ish reports that evoke a bygone era in another of America's most legendary locations. In post-World-War II L A, prospects were being created and as energy was focusing, a do-it-yourself tradition of great oddballs, outsiders, and cats filled the previous downtown communities of Bunker Hill and Chavez Ravine. Regular operating individuals rubbed elbows with petty crooks, grifters, and a variety of ladies at foggy end-of-the-point outposts in Venice Beach and Santa Monica.Rich with the substance and personality of the changing times, suffused with the patois of the town's underclass, these are tales concerning the popular people of L A, "a sunny place for shady people," and the unusual items that occur to them. Artists, gunshop owners, streetwalkers, tailors, door-to-door sellers, drifters, housewives, dentists, pornographers, new arrivals, and hard-bitten denizens all intersect in skillfully plotted tales that centre around some type of shadowy exercise.