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Available online from Issue 16

January 1999

80 Pages

Present Live, ProgDay '98, Djam Karet w/New Sun, Strange Days '98, Northside Label Overview, Ten Jinn interview, David Cross, Hugh Hopper interview, A Triggering Myth, Amon Duul Megafeature

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Lard Free - Unnamed

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This album is an unreleased recording from 1972 that predates all prior Lard Free releases, one that holds very little in common with the strange electronic experiments that would come later in the...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1999-01-01)

Laren d'Or - War of Angels

Cover art The same veiled (an under-promoted!) Hungarian label that is teasing us with Talizman, and After Crying, now goes to the other side for a symphonic keyboard recording by Laren d'Or. A solo project?...  » Read more
(Posted by Mike Ezzo 1999-01-01)

László Hortobágyi - Summa Techonologiae

Cover art While not well known in the States, Hungary's László Hortobágyi has for most of the 90s been making some of the most exciting ethno-electronic music available anywhere....  » Read more
(Posted by Robert Norwood 1999-01-01)

Leo Küpper - Electro-Acoustic

Cover art You have to admit, with a title as academic sounding as this, one would not be unjustified in expecting a musical experience on the equivalent stimulation level of a botany lecture. That "new music"...  » Read more
(Posted by Mike Ezzo 1999-01-01)

Lhasa Cement Plant - I Am Providence

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Recorded live at Terrastock ‘97, this New England based four-piece improvisational unit takes the listener on one crazy, forty minute, tripped up mind excursion. The building blocks here are...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1999-01-01)

Lili Haydn - Lili

Cover art It was February when I bought this on a whim, and it only took a few listens for me to revise my Best of 97 list to include it. Lili Haydn is a violinist of great talent. She’s apparently been doing...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 1999-01-01)

Loituma - Things of Beauty (Loituma)

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This is an incredibly apt title for an album — certainly Loituma has created an album full of things of sorrowful, melancholy, and transcendent beauty. Loituma's fragile folk sounds bring...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1999-01-01)

Love Spirals Downwards - Flux

Cover art Featured at last year's Projekt Fest in Chicago, the fifth release for this duo also happens to be this writer's introduction to them. Their music could be characterized as ambient electronic pop with...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 1999-01-01)

Maelstrom - Maelstrom (AKA On the Gulf)

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[Regarding the Black Moon release of 1997]

Where do they keep coming from? Syn-Phonic may be lying in semi-dormancy as far as reissues go (when are we getting those two CD's...

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(Posted by Mike Ohman 1999-01-01)

Mani Neumeier & Peter Hollinger - Meet the the Demons of Bali

Cover art Wooaah, wait a minute, hold the phone, and just a cottin' pickin'... Mani has really done something different here! Some may remember the Privat CD reviewed last time. There, he took on every...  » Read more
(Posted by Mike Ezzo 1999-01-01)

Marcœur - m,a,r, et cœur comme cœur

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One might suspect from the unusual title that this is not your usual fare. Indeed, Albert Marcœur is not your run-of-the-mill progressive rock musician, and while this writer can’t...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1999-01-01)

Maryam Mursal - The Journey

Cover art Maryam Mursal is a singer from Somalia now exiled and living in Denmark. Somali music, like the country itself, is a unique mixture of African and Arabic. On this release, Mursal approaches her...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 1999-01-01)

Masque - Third Ear/Third Eye

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Third Ear/Third Eye is this brazen Japanese quintet's first CD release (following a couple of cassette releases in the late 80s, plus contributions to the Canterbury Edge and...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 1999-01-01)

Moby Trip - NKU

Cover art Moby Trip is a trio from New Zealand operating in the retro-psych realm. The band features guitars, bass, and drums, with the guitarist doubling on keyboard programming, and vocal duties shared by...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 1999-01-01)

Monolith - Monolith

Cover art At first listen this k/b/d band delivers up derivative progressive rock of the highest order. However, I discovered that a good chunk of this was written in 1977, nearly predating the sound they lean...  » Read more
(Posted by Dean Suzuki 1999-01-01)

Mushroom - Alive and in Full Bloom

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"Krautrock, psychedelic and Jazz influences” or so it states in a large orange label on the CD cover. I saw this band open for Kevin Ayers in San Francisco so I was already familiar with...

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(Posted by Dane Carlson 1999-01-01)

Nektar - The Dream Nebula - Best of 1971-1975

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Hamburg in the 60s was a regular stop for British bands on the road, and a few British bands were even able to forge out a living there entirely. By the end of the 60s, Nektar had established...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1999-01-01)

Niacin - Niacin & High Bias

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The cover of the first Niacin shows the venerable Hammond B3, a creature of legend. So you get an idea what you are in for. Who is Niacin? I think this would be called a "pet project"...

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(Posted by Dane Carlson 1999-01-01)

Norma Tanega & Mike Henderson - HybridVigor

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Despite the presence of guitarist Mike Henderson, this disc sounds nothing like Djam Karet. Rather it is a pleasant if unspectacular acoustic excursion combining the talents of Henderson with...

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(Posted by David Ashcraft 1999-01-01)

Nukli - The Time Factory

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Nukli is a psych-rock band who have a fairly long history peppered with only a few, rare releases. Having spent a good part of the 80s gigging in England on the festival scene with the likes of the...

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(Posted by Dane Carlson 1999-01-01)
 

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