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Covering music from the fringes since 1993.

Available online from Issue 23

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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Ruby - Short-Staffed at the Gene Pool + Altered & Proud

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A 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...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2001-12-01)

Sam Rosenthal - Before the Buildings Fell

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Before 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....

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(Posted by Jerry Baiden 2001-12-01)

Sezon Dozhdei (Rainy Season) - Vozvrashcheniye (Return)

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This 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...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2001-12-01)

Sheila Chandra with the Ganges Orchestra - "This Sentence Is True" (The Previous Sentence Is False)

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Throughout 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...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2001-12-01)

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Grand Opening and Closing

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It 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...

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(Posted by Mike Ezzo 2001-12-01)

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Grand Opening and Closing

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The 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,...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2001-12-01)

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Grand Opening and Closing

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After 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...

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(Posted by Mike Grimes 2001-12-01)

Spacecraft - Cybersphere

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As 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...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2001-12-01)

Spacecraft - Cybersphere

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This 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....

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(Posted by Phil Derby 2001-12-01)

Spacecraft - Cybersphere

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The 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...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2001-12-01)

Spaced Out - Eponymus II

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About 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...

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(Posted by Sean McFee 2001-12-01)

Spaced Out - Eponymus II

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Like their debut, Eponymus II is a blazing display on instrumental chops. They play two speeds...

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(Posted by Mike Grimes 2001-12-01)

Spaced Out - Eponymus II

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Zeuhl 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...

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(Posted by David Ashcraft 2001-12-01)

Spring Heel Jack / The Blue Series Continuum - Masses

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John 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...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2001-12-01)

Tea for Two - 101

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Neo-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...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2001-12-01)

The Fucking Champs - IV

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The 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...

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(Posted by David Ashcraft 2001-12-01)

The Red Masque - Death of the Red Masque

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The 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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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2001-12-01)

The Residents - Icky Flix DVD & Soundtrack

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Since the mid 70s, the Residents have put out a succession of bizarre albums featuring their own take on popular culture and music. In addition to those musical releases, the band has from the...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2001-12-01)

The Underground Railroad - Through and Through

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The Underground Railroad was formed with the express intent of playing music in the style of Genesis, but they have luckily strayed from the strict observance of that intention. There is a remnant...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2001-12-01)

Trap - Insurrection

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Led by Gary Parra, the former Cartoon and PFS percussionist and composer, along with Warren Dale on “hammers” (keyboards, one assumes) and winds, and Chris Smith, guitars and other...

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(Posted by Dean Suzuki 2001-12-01)

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