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Jordan Rudess - Feeding the Wheel

On Feeding the Wheel you get pretty much what you'd expect keyboard intensive instrumentals with loads of chops from all corners. Perhaps I'm getting a bit inundated by these sorts...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2002-04-01)

Jugalbandi - Yellow Star Mailing List, The View Is Better from the Top of the Food Chain & The Cram and Stuff Method

Jugalbandi is a style of Indian music involving two performers — typically featuring one on sitar and the other on tabla. There’s no overt Indian influence in this American band’s...

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(Posted by Jim Chokey 2002-04-01)

Karda Estra - A Winter in Summertime, Thirteen from the Twenty-First & Eve

Karda Estra is the project of composer and multi-instrumentalist Richard Wileman (ex-Lives and Times), along with vocalist Ileesha Bailey, plus a three-piece orchestral section handling oboe,...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2002-04-01)

Kebnekajse - Resa Mot Okänt Mål, II & III

I haven't the faintest idea what this title of this Swedish band’s first album (Resa Mot Okänt Mål) means, but I'm very sure it must mean something exciting,...

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(Posted by Roel Steverink 2002-04-01)

Keith Tippett - Friday the 13th

Keith Tippett's solo career can be viewed as one of constant transition of form. Beginning from a structured jazz quintet in the 60s (with Elton Dean) to his current projects with Mujician, the...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2002-04-01)

Kimo Williams & Kimotion - Tracking

Every now and then a CD comes out of nowhere that has such a unique sound or high energy level that it jolts the listener like an electric shock. Welcome to composer / guitarist / bassist Kimo...

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(Posted by David Ashcraft 2002-04-01)

Kimo Williams & Kimotion - Tracking

Kimo Williams is a Vietnam War vet from Hawaii and Berklee grad with connections into the rap world but with his heart firmly in jazz and with a side project that plays only Jimi Hendrix covers!...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2002-04-01)

Kimo Williams & Kimotion - Tracking

If I were to list the musicians involved in this "Symphonic-Bigband-Rock" project, I would surpass my word limit before being able to say what a truly wonderful and exciting albums this...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2002-04-01)

King Crimsom - Vrooom Vrooom

In DGM's ongoing mission to give access to excellent live recordings and combat the bootleg market, the label has released a top-notch 2CD set of contrasting shows from 1995 and 1996. Each disc...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2002-04-01)

Kit Watkins - The Gathering & Music for the End

Fans of Happy the Man, beware. These three live CDs are more in the realm of ambient space music than progressive rock. Taken together, they document the musical happenings on the night of March...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2002-04-01)

Klaus Schulze - Live @ KlangArt CD1 & CD2

Released separately, it is hard to imagine any Schulze aficionado wanting to be without either of these discs, the result of his performance in June 2001 at the KlangArt Festival in Osnabrück...

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(Posted by Phil Derby 2002-04-01)

Kraan - Live 2001

[Regarding Live 2001]

During the 70s they were Germany’s premiere progressive funk-groove band, beginning their career not far from the jazzier side of the...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2002-04-01)

L'Ensemble Rayé - Ein Fest für Pu den Bären

L’Ensemble Rayé’s third (I believe) release is the soundtrack for a Swiss version of Winnie the Pooh. The tunes, mostly instrumental, are a charming combination of innocence and art,...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2002-04-01)

L'Ensemble Rayé - Vis-à-Vis Movers Dance Company

This is L’Ensemble Raye’s fifth release and it shows the band in a playful mood as usual. As the title implies, this music was composed as the score to accompany a dance performance....

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(Posted by David Ashcraft 2002-04-01)

L'Ensemble Rayé - Vis-à-Vis Movers Dance Company

This work was commissioned for a dance company (it might be the 'Bop with Biggles Dance Company' but don't hold me to that), and it's performed live with the troupe, although the...

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(Posted by Mac Beaulieu 2002-04-01)

L'Ensemble Rayé - Vis-à-Vis Movers Dance Company

This Swiss outfit has been with us for over fifteen years, although their releases on the AYAA label and more recent soundtrack work have generally not been well known. High time for a roundtable...

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(Posted by Sean McFee 2002-04-01)

La Société des Timides à la Parade des Oiseaux - 86-90

Here is an experimental oddity, the likes of which French bands often excel at — call it a sort of iron fist in an R.I.O. velvet glove. The release is a composite of two previous vinyl...

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(Posted by Mike Ezzo 2002-04-01)

Lenny White - Venusian Summer & Big City

Looking back thirty years later on the “golden age” of jazz-rock fusion, we tend to focus on the super tight unison lines and complex rhythmic structures of the Mahavishnu Orchestra and...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2002-04-01)

Marble Sheep - Stone Marby

This album sees Marble Sheep back together in the studio for the first time since about 1993, and a finer example of heavy Japanese psychedelic music I could not name. There are bits of Hawkwind,...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2002-04-01)

Mujician - Spacetime

Acclaimed UK improvising quartet Mujician is quite possibly the best telepathic set of players on the planet. Pianist Keith Tippett, together with saxophonist Paul Dunmall, bassist Paul Rogers, and...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2002-04-01)