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Nicola Alesini / Pier Luigi Andreoni - Marco Polo (Volume II)

This second installment of Marco Polo by keyboardist / saxophonist Alesini and by keyboardist / percussionist Andreoni continues in the vein of their first. In general Alesini and...

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(Posted by Dean Suzuki 1999-11-01)

Percy Howard / Charles Hayward / Fred Frith / Bill Laswell - Meridiem

Superstar line-ups have a knack for clearly missing their mark; the sums of the player’s parts being much less than their collective musical output. I was very excited to find that Percy...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 1999-11-01)

Perfume de Mujer - Pollos d'Granja

Can you say twisted? This Cuban psych / prog quintet seems to get more bizarre with each successive release, but the more the better; it can easily be said that this is their most engaging effort...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1999-11-01)

Philip Pickett - The Bones of All Men

The subtitle on the cover continues after the title: “and of several remarkable curiosities therein occurring being a compendium of Dances, Pavannes, Steps and such, played this time by Mr Philip...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 1999-11-01)

Porcupine Tree - Metanoia

This hard-to-find treat was released after the live album Coma Divine but prior to the latest album Stupid Dream as a limited edition gatefold double 10" vinyl-only release....

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(Posted by Dan Casey 1999-11-01)

Praxis - Collection

If a guitarist who calls himself Buckethead, wearing a white mask with a Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket on his head and claims he was raised by chickens doesn't frighten the crap out of you, then maybe...  » Read more
(Posted by Dan Casey 1999-11-01)

Richard Leo Johnson - Fingertip Ship

Since the death of Michael Hedges, a void in the acoustic guitar world has been left open. No obvious heir to the throne has surfaced since there are many players of skill and dexterity in the...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 1999-11-01)

Rob Levit - Silence

This is a CD that is truly different. Rob Levit, winner of the 1998 Julius Hemphill Composition Award, is the master of short pieces. In fact, Silence has 52 (believe it or not) pieces...

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(Posted by David Ashcraft 1999-11-01)

Robert Rich - Inner Landscapes

There is a wealth of music to be found on Audion / Ultima Thule’s Auricle cassette label. Right off the bat, there are the Peter Frohmader classics Jules Verne Cycle and Orakel /...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1999-11-01)

Rumblin Orchestra - Spartacus

Spartacus by Rumblin' Orchestra is led by Hungarian keyboardist and composer Ella Bela. This release is technically fine, but is somewhat a rehash of things that have been done better before....  » Read more
(Posted by Carol Hammett 1999-11-01)

Samla Mammas Manna - Kaka

One of Sweden’s best loved bands is back. Actually they've been back together for over five years now, playing festivals and touring, but this marks the first release of new material by...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1999-11-01)

Scott McGill's Hand Farm - Ripe

This is the second release from McGill that features a blistering instrumental fusion trio. There are several improvements over 1997’s excellent debut disc, Hand Farm, and they...

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(Posted by David Ashcraft 1999-11-01)

Sebastian Hardie - Live in L.A.

Live in L.A. is taken from part of Sebastian Hardie's headlining Progfest 1994 set, and represents their first, and only, show since their previous "final performance" in...

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(Posted by Mike Grimes 1999-11-01)

Simon Phillips - Another Lifetime

Simon Phillips is a drummer who has little to prove nowadays, what with the monstrous level of playing ability he has cultivated over the years. Terry Bozzio is perhaps his closest competitor...  » Read more
(Posted by Mike Ezzo 1999-11-01)

Sinkadus - Cirkus

I gave this Swedish ensemble a good hammering for being the transparent Änglagård clone that they are on their debut CD, a plagiarism that bears no rival. Änglagård, being the...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1999-11-01)

Snakefinger - Chewing Hides the Sound & Greener Postures

Here we have the welcome reissue of two great albums by Residents’ cohort and collaborator guitarist Snakefinger (AKA Philip Charles Lithman). Many of the songs on these albums were cowritten...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 1999-11-01)

Soft Machine - Fourth / Fifth

Support for the Soft Machine catalog and its movement to the digital age has been excruciatingly slow, to put it mildly. English label Big Beat did some excellent re-work to place Volume One and...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 1999-11-01)

St. Mikael - Visions of the Unknown

Amateur psych, like the two reissued titles here by Swedish musician St Mikael, is not flattered by the CD medium. The effect-lavished, drivel-through-a-tunnel sound that these types of garage...  » Read more
(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1999-11-01)

Strawbs - Ghosts

At long last, the Strawbs catalog is given proper treatment by the band’s first label, A&M, as one of five albums getting a much needed overhaul, Ghosts was the seventh album...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 1999-11-01)

Sylvan - Deliverance

Here's a well-recorded album by an obviously polished German group filled with interesting ideas. I'm sorry to say that those ideas don't always work, such as "A Fairytale Ending," but I appreciate...  » Read more
(Posted by Willow Polson 1999-11-01)