Exposé print issues (1993-2011)
April 2002
84 Pages
Maudlin of The Well, Paranoise, Roger Eno, John Etheridge, Sven Grunberg, La Torre Dell'Alchimista, Tunnels & Nuove Musiche, ProgWest 2001, Progressive Projections, CD: BayProg Sampler
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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...
» Read moreJugalbandi 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...
» Read moreKarda 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,...
» Read moreKeith 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...
» Read moreEvery 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...
» Read moreKimo 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!...
» Read moreIf 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...
» Read moreIn 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...
» Read moreFans 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...
» Read moreReleased 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...
» Read more[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...
» Read moreThis 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....
» Read moreThis 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...
» Read moreThis 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...
» Read moreHere 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...
» Read moreLooking 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...
» Read moreThis 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,...
» Read moreAcclaimed 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...
» Read morePatrick O’Hearn is a fervent disciple on the improvisational side of 70s jazz. Reviving the disparate elements of a groove-informed beat is merely part of his pathway through each band album...
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