The spaghetti western genre appeals to Iranian-American producer Sharam Tayebi. As one half of the Grammy award-winning duo Deep Dish, this debut solo outing finds Sharam opening up ‘Get Wild’ with a fairly convincing impression of a Sergio Leonie / Ennio Morricone theme before his record dissolves into faceless, repetitive tech-house. Disc one (entitled Wild Dish) includes ‘She Came Along’ which features Kid Cudi doing his best Kanye West impression whilst discussing polygamous arrangements as well as the legendary Chuck D. Well, so claims ‘Say Yeah’, but actually Sharam just sampled ‘It Takes A Nation Of Millions to Hold Us Back’ when Chuck says, “Somebody in the house say yeah!” Surely, the claim of ‘featuring’ is tantamount to false advertising. Or, er, lying.
Disc two (Side Dish) begins with the engorged 10 minute didactic excursion that is ‘Be the change’ and‘features’ Anousheh Khalili (also of Iranian-American descent). Get Wild really is an album filled with hubris and the tribute to Eddie Murphy’s ‘Party All The Time’ as originally produced by Rick James includes a snippet of the original which only highlights how awful Sharam and P Diddy’s interpretation is.
For any listener that has ever been to Ibiza, and remembers that one song which, when played, will trigger memories of the sun rising over the island signalling the opening of a new club someplace else, it’s unlikely to have been any track featured here.
