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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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Porcupine Tree - Recordings

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I picked up this limited edition disc at NEARfest last year. 20,000 CDs may or may not qualify for “limited edition" status and if sales are good enough you can bet there’ll be...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2001-12-01)

Present - High Infidelity

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Have Present evolved from Univers Zero to Art Zoyd? Well, not quite, although Dominic Ntoumos' trumpet strongly reminds me of Gerard Hourbette's approach on Art Zoyd's early albums such...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2001-12-01)

Present - High Infidelity

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The bleak occasion of Roger Trigaux's seventh nightmarish vision is filled with extreme trauma. This time out, the composer has seen fit to fill an orchestral gap by adding sax, trumpet, and...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2001-12-01)

Present - High Infidelity

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For their latest release, Present pays tribute to REO Speedwagon's classic 1980 album. Their remake of "Keep on Loving You" just rocks!! Oh wait... that's just a terrible...

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(Posted by Mike Grimes 2001-12-01)

Rains - Apokalyptische Stadt

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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...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2001-12-01)

Rasha - Let Me Be

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Go 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...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2001-12-01)

Remotion - Between Fiction and Reality

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Remotion 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...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2001-12-01)

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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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)

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)

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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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)

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)

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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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)

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)

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