Check Out '98 - the year in new music [Watch Magazine, Winter Issue '99]
Austin CLarke [Toronto, ON -National]

...A close second to Rufus on the bizzaro front was Moncton's Zwerg (aka Jason Betts). Where Wainwright is best described as Elton John with contemporary relevance and WITHOUT cheese, Zwerg is the first solo pianist to deserve to be compared to the incomparable Tori Amos. He's a prolific little bugger, too, having coughed up an EP and a full length in the space of 9 months (more info: rolene@nbnet.nb.ca)

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