Exposé print issues (1993-2011)
December 2001
88 Pages
Estradasphere, Dennis Rea, Prog Day 2001, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, New Sun, Ozrics, Neil Sadler, Robert Carty + Dweller at the Threshold, Indonesian Prog Festival, Rob Ayling (of Voiceprint), King Crimson w/Tool
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This quartet from Verona, Italy plays a freewheeling experimental grunge-jazz infected rock, driven by dual guitars, tenor sax and drums. Half the time they are out on the edge, the other half...
» Read moreGo to your favorite record store, to the world music (or international as some of them call it) section and look for Africa. Most of them will have a fair number of CDs, usually separated by...
» Read moreRemotion is musician Richard Stuij assisted by engineer Arjan Steenbergen. Like contemporary Ron Boots, Stuij is profoundly influenced by Berlin school electronic music in addition to the more...
» Read moreA whole new genre has developed since about 1995, one that consists basically of a soft-voiced female singer and a programmer / keyboardist / arranger. It probably started with Portishead, then...
» Read moreBefore the Buildings Fell is another intimate and introspective look into Sam Rosenthal’s flesh and blood. It is melodramatic. It is serious and unfortunately pretentious at times....
» Read moreThis Russian band (Сезон Дождей - Sezon Dozhdei = Rainy Season, from St.Petersburg) is one of those rare cases that simply defies classification. Mostly instrumental, in tone and spirit...
» Read moreThroughout the 90s, Sheila Chandra recorded albums of solo voice, basically drones with refined, studied melodies and tones above them. That was interesting enough (since I love her voice), but...
» Read moreAfter two years of playing astounding shows in the Bay Area and with a national tour under their belt, this band finally has an album out! Sleepytime Gorilla Museum is a Bay Area supergroup of...
» Read moreThe grand opening and closing of the Sleepytime Gorilla Museum is an event one would hope they would repeat ad infinitum. First there was Idiot Flesh and, somewhere in between, Charming Hostess,...
» Read moreIt sounds cheesy to admit but the cover art for this CD is what I thought most impressive about it. Independent releases are usually fraught with problems in presentation. But SGM come at you with...
» Read moreAs recently as our interview with the band last year, Spacecraft was a four-piece (then up from a three-piece on their earliest recordings). Now they are five, adding electric cellist Josie Phelan...
» Read moreThis is a return to top form for Tony Gerber's ever-evolving electronic space music collective. The core group of players is still intact, with the addition of Josie Phelan on electric cello....
» Read moreThe gradual expansion in Spacecraft membership has given the sound an equally gradual evolution. I haven't had a chance to investigate any of their CDs since 1999's Earthtime...
» Read moreAbout a minute into this and you would swear Jannick Top has relocated to Canada and gotten a new band together. To say this release comes as a pleasant surprise is an understatement. Spaced Out is...
» Read moreLike their debut, Eponymus II is a blazing display on instrumental chops. They play two speeds...
» Read moreZeuhl rules on the second outing from this quartet from Quebec. Bassist Antoine Fafard composed, arranged, and produced all of the music and he plays in a throbbing Jannick Top / Bernard Paganotti...
» Read moreJohn Coxon and Ashley Wales take advantage of their Thirsty Ear jazzy label mates by diving head first into a maze of grooves, pulse and mood. But don’t expect a clever ambient dub from these...
» Read moreNeo-progressive act Tea for Two’s first album is appropriately titled 101 since this work is very much a freshman endeavor. The core of the group stems from vocalist Stephan Weber...
» Read moreThe Champs are an unusual trio of twin lead guitars plus drums that cranks out a heavy uptempo rock sound with plenty of meaty riffs. On many tunes they sound like an instrumental version of Thin...
» Read moreThe Red Masque is a five-piece of guitars, bass, drums/percussion, keyboard+harp, and lead voice. Their promo package proclaims “...An intense and angular blend of avant rock...” and...
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