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David Bagsby - Transphoria

From Tulsa Oklahoma, Bagsby has been around for a few years doing his thing; he had a fairly interesting release with keyboardist Kurt Rongey as Xen a few years back. On this latest release Bagsby...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2000-05-01)

David Helpling - Sleeping on the Edge of the World

On Sleeping on the Edge of the World, synthesist David Helpling has conjured up 11 portraits of the subconscious, a soundtrack to your dreams if you will. This collection sits well beside...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2000-05-01)

Dün - Eros

Zeuhl alert! One of the best, yet little known zeuhl gems has re-surfaced thanks to the specialty label Soleil Atreides, the same folks who recently gave us Archaia. Dün is rather more in the...

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(Posted by Dean Suzuki 2000-05-01)

Dystopia - The Second Dawn

Most of the time, when I listen to music, I don’t actively think about the intentions of the musicians. I just listen and judge the sounds on their own terms. Only later do I sometimes wonder...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2000-05-01)

Eclat - En Concert - Marseille Tokyo

Recorded in both France and Japan, En Concert is a snapshot of the band on two nights in the summer of 1998. Much of Eclat’s music could be categorized as jazz-fusion, but they...

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(Posted by Mike Grimes 2000-05-01)

Epidaurus - Earthly Paradise & Endangered

Earthy Paradise is a short five-song album originally released in 1977 that should fulfill any analog purist with its dual-keys-driven, Mellotron-and-organ-heavy sound. In some ways it is...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2000-05-01)

Erik Wøllo - Guitar Nova

This is Wøllo’s latest, essentially an acoustic guitar driven album with a number of other instruments featured judiciously, track depending, and with the exception of the solo guitar...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2000-05-01)

Erik Wøllo - Where It All Begins

If all you’ve known of Wøllo is his later ambient / synth oriented Images of Light period material, you are in for a real treat with this, a reissue of his very first album from 1982....

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2000-05-01)

Fifty Foot Hose - Sing Like Scaffold

Fifty Foot Hose occupy that most rare of places, avant garde psychedelia, a mix very few bands have even attempted, let alone pulled off. The fact that they first honed their craft with their debut...

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(Posted by Steve Robey 2000-05-01)

Forgas Band Phenomena - Extra-Lucide

French drummer/composer Patrick Forgas supplied us with the missing link between Canterbury and zeuhl with his outstanding 1997 release, Roue Libre. Forgas Band Phenomena returns two years...

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(Posted by David Ashcraft 2000-05-01)

Foxtrot Zulu - Frozen in Time

Foxtrot Zulu is a Rhode Island group who should be finding a quick path onto the roots radio wave still prevalent across the US. One of the things that sets the seven piece apart from other roots...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2000-05-01)

Fred Thelonious Baker - Missing Link

For those of you wondering who in the world is Fred Baker with the familiar middle name, please allow me to provide background on the educated virtuoso. He’s a Birmingham College of Music...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2000-05-01)

French TV - The Violence of Amateurs

Any new French TV album is always a load of fun and great playing, but with this one (what is this now, the sixth? They used to number them...), the band seems to have taken a big step forward,...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2000-05-01)

Garmarna - Vedergällningen (Vengeance)

Garmarna’s newest release starts out with a grab for the listener’s throat. “Gamen (Vulture)” begins with a flanged rhythmic pattern on two fiddles which builds up to a powerful crash as the...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2000-05-01)

Garrett List - The New York Takes

You may be aware of Carbon 7 for their new Present release (No. 6), Cro-Magnon, and a few others. But with Garrett List we and they step into a different dimension altogether. The New...

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(Posted by Mike Ezzo 2000-05-01)

Group Therapy - Atlantis

No this isn’t the California band Atlantis. This is a Japanese band called Group Therapy with an album titled Atlantis. This is a seven-piece all-instrumental band: two guitarists, a...

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(Posted by Mike Grimes 2000-05-01)

Harmonia 76 - Tracks and Traces

1976 was a transitional year where Brian Eno changed his context for working with electronics to an ambient perspective. This was due in part to his meeting with synthesizer duo Cluster (Moebius...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2000-05-01)

Ice - Opus 1

This CD is by one of the more pedestrian rock groups that seem strangely prevalent on the Garden of Delights label. While Ice doesn’t have the overt amateur tendencies that many of the...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2000-05-01)

In the Summer of the Mushroom Honey - In the Summer of the Mushroom Honey

In the Summer of the Mushroom Honey – An Album of Inspired Improvisational Music is the full title, and a definite clue as to what kind of music you will find on it. This record is...

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(Posted by Dane Carlson 2000-05-01)

Iva Bittová - Iva Bittová & Classic

I’m still pinching myself to prove it is no dream: an American label actually has released a CD collection of recordings by Miss Bittová, the Moravian violinist / vocalist...

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(Posted by Mike Ezzo 2000-05-01)