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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)

Maria Kalaniemi & Aldargaz - Ahma

Use an accordion, go to jail? Not here! Like many, the word accordion conjured up for me nightmares of bad polka music and Lawrence Welk. However, just one listen to the superb music on...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 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)

Mike Keneally - Nonkertompf

Mike Keneally’s mastery to create an amusing stream of conscious should be undisputed upon hearing this disc. The man jumps from hot guitar lick to jazz groove to shrill weirdness and movie...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2000-05-01)

Miles Davis - Panthalassa: The Music of Miles Davis

Jazz-fusion of the early 70s used to get such a bad rap for self-indulgence and excess, almost as bad as the progressive rock camp. With the help of producer / bassist Bill Laswell, progenitors of...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2000-05-01)

Mr. Bungle - California

No one could ever rightfully accuse Mr. Bungle of stylistic monotony. Their three albums have been about everywhere on the map, and a few places that aren’t on any maps. That said,...

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(Posted by Mike Grimes 2000-05-01)

Mushroom - Analog Hi-Fi Surprise

San Fransisco’s Mushroom have quickly followed up Hydrogen Jukebox with this new album, which continues on in the same vein. Distinctly rooted in 70s psychedelic jazz-rock, Mushroom...

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(Posted by Dan Casey 2000-05-01)

No-Man - Speak

No-Man began back in 1987 as a collaboration between Steve Wilson (pre-Porcupine Tree) and vocalist Tim Bowness. Over the years since then, the band has released a number of albums and EPs, mostly in...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2000-05-01)

One Shot - One Shot

Emmanuel Borghi (keys) and Philippe Bussonnet (bass) are both members of the current Magma lineup. Here they are joined by James Mac Gaw (guitars) and Daniel Jeand’heur (drums) on a romp...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2000-05-01)

Orient Squeezers - Sadhu

Orient Squeezers, aside from being an especially nonsensical phrase, is a solo project of Håkan Almkvist, the driving force behind Ensemble Nimbus. The disc displays quite an obsession with...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2000-05-01)

Oysterband - Here I Stand

Oysterband (originally The Oyster Band) has been making music in their own unique and developing style for more than a decade. I would hesitate to call them a post-punk equivalent of Fairport...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2000-05-01)

Paranoise - Private Power

The “Ancient Ecstatic Brotherhood of Paranoise” has come up with an original and compelling fusion of musical styles. Starting out with samples of Middle-Eastern and other exotic...

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(Posted by David Ashcraft 2000-05-01)

Pere Ubu - Dub Housing

I recall when I first heard this LP, I was honestly paralyzed by the discordant synthesizer which underpinned a Velvet Underground groove on the first track. There was vocalist David Thomas and his...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2000-05-01)