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Random Hold - The View from Here

For those of you who missed their brief history, Random Hold was a band that featured David Rhodes (longtime Peter Gabriel band mate) on guitar, Bill MacCormick (Quiet Sun, Matching Mole, and so on)...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2002-09-01)

Renaissance - Novella & A Song for All Seasons

The history of Renaissance is much too convoluted to go into in a review, but it’s safe to say that these two albums were the end of the “classic” period of the...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2002-09-01)

Robert Andrews - An Amnesty for Bonny Things on Sunny Days

Britain’s Robert Andrews plays guitar and bass for Land of Yrx and Aerie, bands with whom he’s released over a dozen albums. An Amnesty for Bonny Things on Sunny Days is his...

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(Posted by Jim Chokey 2002-09-01)

Ron Boots - Liquid Structures in Solid Form

Ron Boots has firmly established himself as a force in electronic music. His latest release is, as always, accessible top-notch electronic music. The title track gradually unfolds over the...

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(Posted by Phil Derby 2002-09-01)

Ron E. Carter - Play Hendrix

Covering the Jimi Hendrix catalogue requires skill as well as thought about which arrangements to interpret and which ones not to disturb. Stevie Ray Vaughn’s cover of “Voodoo Chile -...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2002-09-01)

Soft Machine - Backwards

Woo-hoo! More genuine artifacts from the Soft Machine vaults, and what a treat this one is. Six tracks, and most of what we have here is Third era, either by the four-piece of Wyatt,...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2002-09-01)

Spirits Burning - Reflections in a Radio Shower

Spaceheads take note. For the second Gazul label release, Don Falcone has assembled sixteen tracks featuring an impressive list of musicians from the neo psych and space-rock camps, including...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2002-09-01)

SS Puft Quartet with Dave Rempis - Live at Earthshaking Music

Four Athens natives + one collectively channel their improvisational demons with this two disc set on the independent Solponticello label. Saxophonist Dave Rempis (on loan from Vandermark 5) runs...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2002-09-01)

Stealing the Fire - Hot Ice and Wondrous Strange Snow

Not really a sequel, but certainly a long time coming. Anyone recall the Earthstone album Seed? At the time it was receiving some good reviews, actually people were raving about it; I know...

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(Posted by Dane Carlson 2002-09-01)

Stephen Phillips - Cycles 4

There is ambient, and then there is ambient. This is true ambient, for fans of completely tuneless, minimalist drones and occasional other sounds electronic. For example, after a couple of minutes,...

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(Posted by Phil Derby 2002-09-01)

Steve Jansen / Claudio Chianura - Kinoapparatom

Writing about music is often difficult, trying to find words to describe what is essentially a non-verbal experience. When the music tends toward the ambient realm, this problem is intensified. Former...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2002-09-01)

Stinkhorn - Altered Takes

In anticipation of their appearance at the Progman festival in Seattle this summer, Stinkhorn have put together this little teaser of a CD. It contains early versions of two of the highlights of...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2002-09-01)

Storm at Sunrise - The Suffering

Storm at Sunrise’s debut was a faithful, if slightly amusing, Southern-bred retread of the classic 70s rock sound of Deep Purple, ZZ Top, and Kansas. But even with Black Oak Arkansas veteran...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2002-09-01)

T-Bass UK - The Fabulous Neutrinos

This disc opens in very upbeat, rocking fashion, as electronic music meets rock anthem. “Know Fear,” despite the name, is a bright, lighthearted affair, a dead ringer for the stronger melodic...  » Read more
(Posted by Phil Derby 2002-09-01)

The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - New Tricks

Comedy troupes recording albums for the rock and roll audience stem from such acts as the Firesign Theater and England's Monty Python (with Eric Idle and John Cleese). Voiceprint has been keen...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2002-09-01)

The Dark Aether Project - The Gentle Art of Firewalking

This is the third release from Adam Levin’s ever-changing Dark Aether Project. How much is it changing? Well, Levin is the only member returning from 1999’s Feed the Silence,...

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(Posted by Sean McFee 2002-09-01)

The Dark Aether Project - The Gentle Art of Firewalking

All too often progressive influenced bands are earmarked for the airplay abyss, just on the edge of anonymity as in the case of Adam Levin’s group, The Dark Aether Project. The five-piece...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2002-09-01)

The Muffins - Bandwidth

The Muffins were one of those seminal East Coast US groups who started life entrenched in one style (Canterbury / ReR influenced rock jazz) before migrating into a variant style (experimental free...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2002-09-01)

The Muffins - Bandwidth

Many bands from the 70s and 80s that reform do so for strictly financial reasons. They might hit the concert circuit to cash in, and the results can range from pleasantly nostalgic to downright...

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(Posted by David Ashcraft 2002-09-01)

The Muffins - Bandwidth

The Muffins are back! Really?! Yes, after 17 years of dead silence, they are back from the grave. I’m curious what changes will have taken place. Only few bands are capable of recreating that...

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(Posted by Roel Steverink 2002-09-01)