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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)

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey - Welcome Home

Youthful energy explodes out of this release by these seven twenty-something Oklahomans. Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey’s Welcome Home is a jazzy blend of free but focused improvisational...

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(Posted by Jerry Baiden 2000-05-01)

JBK (Jansen Barbieri Karn) - _Ism

_ism is the latest project by this trio formerly from the bands Japan and Raintree Crow. This is the group’s third distinct album and first real collaboration in their six years on...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2000-05-01)

John Wetton & Richard Palmer-James - Monkey Business 1972-1997

When was the first time you heard “Exiles” or “The Great Deceiver” and were taken aback about the lyrics? It’s a pretty strange role to find yourself by trying to fill...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2000-05-01)

Kenso - In the West & Esoptron

From 1993 to 1996, Japanese instrumental quintet Kenso released four live albums in a row with no new studio material, followed a long break of three years with nothing. Had they broken up? Last...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2000-05-01)

Kepa Junkera - Bilbao 00:00 h

The first I ever heard of Kepa Junkera was at the first WOMAD USA festival. He was an unknown quantity that my wife and I checked out and became enraptured with. He plays the traditional Basque...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2000-05-01)

Kilgore Trout - KGT

Kilgore Trout has been kicking around the Northwest for some years now, after relocating here from the Northeast. This migration to Seattle might be typical for a rock band, especially a really loud...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2000-05-01)

King Crimson - The ProjeKcts

Despite casual impressions, recording and releasing the foundations for a new King Crimson re-birth is a big undertaking. Considering that there has been no specific time plan, Fripp has had plenty...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2000-05-01)

Korekyojin - Korekyojin

The latest band from Yoshida Tatsuya (leader from Ruins and Koenji Hyakkei), this trio consists of a very powerful blend of avant-rock and jazzcore musics. The guitarist from Bondage Fruit, Kido...

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(Posted by Jerome Schmidt 2000-05-01)

Krakatoa - Plan Ahead

I had heard virtually nothing about this new, up-and-coming quartet, and still know little about them apart from their names (Ted Casterline, Valerie Opelski, Glendon Jones, and Jay Horvath), so I...

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(Posted by Mike Ohman 2000-05-01)

Leah Waybright - Beauty Gone Wild

Waybright is a composer, keyboardist, floral artist, and wildflower preservationist. This project brings all of that together: a 12 track CD + 32 page CD-sized book featuring illustrations,...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2000-05-01)

Loop Guru - The Fountains of Paradise

Loop Guru got started in England in 1992 as a collaboration between Salman Gita (Sam Dodson) and Jamuud (Dave Muddyman) to experiment with tape loops, samples, and world beat rhythms. Over the...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2000-05-01)

Lucia Hwong - Goddess Vols.1-3

A trio of simultaneous releases from Lucia, someone we have heard nothing of since her two excellent Private Music recordings over ten years ago. Glad to see she is back! Now let me explain the...

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(Posted by Mike Ezzo 2000-05-01)

Magnum - Progressive Classics

This English "pomp-rock" (as those silly British metal mags used to call it) band has been around for donkey's years. Wide spread fame always seemed to elude them however, but given...

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(Posted by Mike Ezzo 2000-05-01)

Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Lost Trident Sessions

Out of the vaults come recordings for an aborted third album by the original line-up of the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Time to celebrate! This was the band who set out to chisel a trail across...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2000-05-01)

Michael Hoppé, Martin Tillmann, Tim Wheater - Afterglow

Afterglow is the combined musical energies of cellist Martin Tillman, flautist Tim Wheater, and keys player Michael Hoppé. For the most part, the music is a spacious and somber...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2000-05-01)

Michael Mantler / Edward Gorey - The Hapless Child and Other Inscrutable Stories

It's a rare project that extracts elements of the written word and transfers them eloquently to an audio performance. Composer/trumpet player Michael Mantler's first major success with this...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2000-05-01)

Michael Ray and the Cosmic Krewe - Funk If I Know

The Cosmic Krewe’s music is an almost perfect hybrid of trumpeter/keyboardist/vocalist Michael Ray’s two most significant former gigs. Here, as on the band’s 1994 debut,...

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(Posted by Rob Walker 2000-05-01)