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Available online from Issue 37

July 2009

92 Pages

Jorge Reyes, Interview with Rob Reed of Magenta, Peter Hammill, Chris Sqquire interview, Hugh Hopper remembered, Morgan Agren, Jan Schelhaas, FMPM 2008, Edward Ka-Spel, Wojtek Szadkowski of Satellite

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Bill Bruford / Michiel Borstlap - In Two Minds

Cover art Drummer Bill Bruford’s desire to pursue an on-going dialog with pianist Michiel Borstlap continues with this live recording across four separate 2006 European gigs. Each piece is an improvisation...  » Read more
(Posted by Jeff Melton 2009-07-01)

33 Dao - Xunzhao Guowang

Cover art There has always been a kind of surreal appeal to the sound of carnival music, and it has managed to creep into a variety of genres, from Broadway musicals to Hamster Theatre. This Shanghai band (No....  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2009-07-01)

Alio Die & Martina Galvagni - Eleusian Lullaby

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Largely pelagic, the three pieces that comprise Eleusian Lullaby are suffused with slowly moving timbral shifts occurring inside an amoebic suspension of sources that now and then yield up...

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(Posted by K. Leimer 2009-07-01)

Anoushka Shankar / Karsh Kale - Breathing under Water

Cover art Acclaimed sitar master Anoushka Shankar and ex-Tabla Beat Science techno beat master Karsh Kale teamed up for one of the surprise East-meets-West collaborations of last year. The two musicians are...  » Read more
(Posted by Jeff Melton, Scott Steele 2009-07-01)

Basilwink - Bipolar Bliss

Cover art Basilwink is a Milwaukee based project featuring Jeff Marcus (guitars, keyboards, bass, engineering), and Jim Bloedel (percussion, keyboards, loops and effects), and the disc at hand is their fourth...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2009-07-01)

Believe - Yesterday Is a Friend & Hope to See Another Day Live

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Believe are a new Polish group founded by ex-Collage guitarist Marek Gil. At first glance the band is similar to Collage except for one big difference: the presence of Japanese violinist Satomi....

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2009-07-01)

Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - Dawn of the Cycads

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Since I think Birdsongs of the Mesozoic are a great band, and I think cycads are really interesting plants, I won’t be pedantic and point out that cycads actually appeared in the Early...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2009-07-01)

Blackmore's Night - Secret Voyage

Cover art The partnership of guitar god Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow) and Candace Night (skimpy bodice) has been going strong for 10 years, and — despite the Ren Faire and LARP associations —...  » Read more
(Posted by Paul Hightower 2009-07-01)

Boiled in Lead - Silver

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Boiled in Lead is an American institution, experts at an Anglo-Irish institution: traditional and electric folk music. Hailing from Minnesota, this quintet has been messing with this revered...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2009-07-01)

Bryan Beller - Thanks in Advance

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Bassist Bryan Beller’s long awaited second release is nothing short of an ensemble tour de force. On the surface one could easily mistake the nine recordings as a crack shot guitarist’s...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2009-07-01)

Caamora - Journey's End... An Acoustic Anthology

Cover art To recap: Caamora is the musical partnership of Clive Nolan (Arena, Pendragon, Strangers on a Train, etc.) and Polish singer Agnieszka Swita. Last year they recorded an original musical theatre score...  » Read more
(Posted by Paul Hightower 2009-07-01)

Cabezas de Cera - Hecho en México

Cover art Cabezas en vivo! There is no better way to experience this band – CDC’s live shows are positively amazing, exploding with energy and instrumental precision. Live they can go anywhere, jumping from...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2009-07-01)

California Guitar Trio - Echoes

Cover art CGT are back to what they do best: arranging covers of classic rock in their own inimitable style. Doing up the classics is part and parcel for the ensemble with two of Beethoven’s well known...  » Read more
(Posted by Jeff Melton 2009-07-01)

Chas Smith - Nakadai

Cover art For lack of a better term, let’s say that when we produce or listen to sounds that an instrument was not principally designed to generate, we are playing or hearing “beyond the instrument.”...  » Read more
(Posted by K. Leimer 2009-07-01)

Circa - Circa: 2007

Cover art The continuing saga of Billy Sherwood finds him following up his efforts on Yes albums like Open Your Eyes and his collaboration with Chris Squire (Conspiracy) with an album of songs...  » Read more
(Posted by Paul Hightower 2009-07-01)

Colour Haze - All

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Colour Haze is a German band that is new to me, though they have been recording since 1995. You can pretty much trust any Elektrohasch release to be great, and All, Colour Haze’s seventh...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2009-07-01)

Daniel Lentz - Point Conception

Cover art These two piano pieces – the title composed in 1979 for nine pianos and the second, shorter “NightBreaker” composed in 1990 for four pianos – place Point Conception in the middle of...  » Read more
(Posted by K. Leimer 2009-07-01)

Darryl Way's Wolf - Canis Lupus, Saturation Point & Night Music

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The 70s continue to be a repository of stimulating music that new and old labels don’t stop digging out. Well, this is not all gold that glitters, but several forgotten works resurface,...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2009-07-01)

David Cross Band - Alive in the Underworld

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Ex-Crimson violinist David Cross has been pretty consistently refining his post-Crimson ideas for the past ten years or so. It’s no quantum leap to expect him to take his message literally to...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2009-07-01)

Donovan - The Donovan Concert: Live in L.A.

Cover art 60s folk icon Donovan appeared at the Kodak Theater in LA on his 2007 tour to a packed house of acolytes from the Transcendental Meditation foundation (led by filmmaker David Lynch). From the get-go,...  » Read more
(Posted by Jeff Melton, Scott Steele 2009-07-01)
 

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