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L'Ensemble Rayé - Vis-à-Vis Movers Dance Company

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This Swiss outfit has been with us for over fifteen years, although their releases on the AYAA label and more recent soundtrack work have generally not been well known. High time for a roundtable...

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(Posted by Sean McFee 2002-04-01)

La Société des Timides à la Parade des Oiseaux - 86-90

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Here is an experimental oddity, the likes of which French bands often excel at — call it a sort of iron fist in an R.I.O. velvet glove. The release is a composite of two previous vinyl...

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(Posted by Mike Ezzo 2002-04-01)

Lenny White - Venusian Summer & Big City

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Looking back thirty years later on the “golden age” of jazz-rock fusion, we tend to focus on the super tight unison lines and complex rhythmic structures of the Mahavishnu Orchestra and...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2002-04-01)

Marble Sheep - Stone Marby

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This album sees Marble Sheep back together in the studio for the first time since about 1993, and a finer example of heavy Japanese psychedelic music I could not name. There are bits of Hawkwind,...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2002-04-01)

Mujician - Spacetime

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Acclaimed UK improvising quartet Mujician is quite possibly the best telepathic set of players on the planet. Pianist Keith Tippett, together with saxophonist Paul Dunmall, bassist Paul Rogers, and...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2002-04-01)

Mushroom - Foxy Music

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Patrick O’Hearn is a fervent disciple on the improvisational side of 70s jazz. Reviving the disparate elements of a groove-informed beat is merely part of his pathway through each band album...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2002-04-01)

Natsuki Tamura - White and Blue

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Relying on a minimalist instrumentation (trumpet, sundry percussion, and drums), composer Natsuki Tamura is interested in filling space not only with free jazz excursions but also with textural...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2002-04-01)

NeBeLNeST - Nova Express

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For the French quartet's second album, the band has procured Bob Drake as producer and joined Cuneiform records, but both new developments have left little difference in the band's music....

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2002-04-01)

NeBeLNeST - Nova Express

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This is the first time I have heard NeBeLNeST, and boy do they cook up a Hungry Man Dinner of Crimson-inspired fusion with a low-end wallop! Bass and drums are probably what create the closest link...

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(Posted by Mike Ezzo 2002-04-01)

NeBeLNeST - Nova Express

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Dark, dense, and intense sums up the excellent second effort from France’s NeBeLNeST. With the help of Thinking Plague / 5uu’s Bob Drake as producer and some live gigs, a more mature...

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(Posted by David Ashcraft 2002-04-01)
 

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