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Lutz Ulbrich - Kurzmusiken

Inspired by the success of Ash Ra Tempel’s retrospective collection, The Private Tapes, Ulbrich decided to mine his solo archives as well, and the result is this 2CD assortment....

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(Posted by Phil Derby 2001-07-01)

Markus Reuter - Digitalis

Reuter is a German Warr Guitarist creating ambient music of a very individual nature. This is definitely at the abstract end of the Hypnos catalog, a music whose sense of melody is unlike any...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2001-07-01)

Matching Mole - Smoke Signals

After leaving Soft Machine in 1971, drummer Robert Wyatt planned to record a solo album that featured his songwriting and singing talents. He then enlisted guitarist Phil Miller, Dave Sinclair (of...

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(Posted by David Ashcraft 2001-07-01)

Mind over Matter - Under the Stars

Klaus Hoffman-Hoock is one of my favorite guitarist/synthesists, and this series of live recordings does little to dispel that perception. Recording either as Cosmic Hoffman or Mind over Matter,...

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(Posted by Phil Derby 2001-07-01)

Moe! Staiano - The Non-Study of First Impressions

Mr. Moe likes to bang on metals, and just about anything else he can get to sit still long enough in a room with him. There was a guy named Z’ev back in the 80s who perpetrated similar...

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(Posted by Mike Ezzo 2001-07-01)

moe. - Dither

moe. returns to the studio to find a new collection of tunes, rejuvenation and even a notch forward into jam stardom. 1999 saw the band extend the grooves of their live stage persona about as far...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2001-07-01)

Mujician & The Georgian Ensemble - The Bristol Concert

Flashback to 1989: KeithTippett had traveled to the remains of the Soviet Union to recruit some local talent for the prestigious Bath International Music Festival. Little did he expect at the time...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2001-07-01)

Nobukazu Takemura - Hoshi no Koe

After working in fields as diverse as minimalism (on the Reich Remixed album), jazz, and techno, Nobukazu Takemura presents an album of music that fuses a wide range of styles into something...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2001-07-01)

Paradox One - Reality Quake

Scotland’s Phil Jackson is the man behind Paradox One, and this initial release has been crafted over a number of years, based mostly on themes from science fiction. He starts out with...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2001-07-01)

Paul Dunmall Octet - Great Divide

Tenor saxophonist Paul Dunmall has followed his acclaimed release from 1999, Bebop Stardust, with the next logical step, Great Divide. As a jazz composer, it's a challenge to...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2001-07-01)

Paul Ellis - Appears to Vanish

This is the first solo effort by Paul Ellis, one of the two brains behind Dweller at the Threshold. It’s immediately clear that this is a professional musician who knows what he’s doing...

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(Posted by Roel Steverink 2001-07-01)

Phil Miller - In Cahoots - Out of the Blue

Guitarist Miller, no doubt best known for his tenure with Hatfield and National Health, continues his mission with his band “In Cahoots,” represented here by two distinctly different...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2001-07-01)

Plus - The Seven Deadly Sins

One look at the cover and it should be clear that producers Simon Napier Bell and Ray Singer (who also penned about six of the tracks here) were trying to capitalize on the look and feel of...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2001-07-01)

Polite Force - Canterbury Knights

Mark Hewins’s longtime jamming project released a disc in 1996 after many years of existence in local obscurity. The band had a floating set of players as wide ranging as Richard Sinclair and...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2001-07-01)

Rainbow Serpent - Voices of the First Day

Rainbow Serpent has really caught on among Teutonic enthusiasts, and it’s easy to see why on their latest release, a great blend of pinpoint sequencing and strong melodies. Bright piano is...

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(Posted by Phil Derby 2001-07-01)

Rick Ray - Guitarsenal & Living in an Insane World

When I first put on a Rick Ray CD (I don’t remember which one of these it was), my first reaction was, “Do I have to listen to the whole thing?” An endless series of fairly stock...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2001-07-01)

Scott McGill / Michael Manring / Vic Stevens - Addition by Subtraction

McGill has assembled a fusion “dream team” on his third album by enlisting bassist Michael Manring and maintaining ace drummer Vic Stevens (Jordan Rudess also contributes keyboards to a...

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(Posted by David Ashcraft 2001-07-01)

Scott McGill / Michael Manring / Vic Stevens - Addition by Subtraction

Here’s a recipe for a massive fusion event: Add one dose of Hand Farm, a spoonful of Thonk, and a dash of Mistaken Identities and what have you concocted? The ecstatic result is a...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2001-07-01)

Scott McGill / Michael Manring / Vic Stevens - Addition by Subtraction

Even though this is not listed as such, most of the elements of the last Hand Farm CD (Ripe,...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2001-07-01)

Sorten Muld - III

Back in 1999 I fell in love with Sorten Muld’s first NorthSide release, Mark II (reviewed in...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2001-07-01)