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Nurse with Wound - She and Me Fall Together in Free Death

Beta-lactam Ring Records seems to revel in obscurity. Most of their product is released only on LP in limited pressings, they come with minimal credits, the discs themselves have lovely graphics in...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-12-01)

Olyam - Cristal Rêveur

Olyam is a young French musician working in the realm of New-Age/Pop, akin to other one-name practitioners (Kitaro, Vangelis, Yanni, etc.) though his influences also include Mike Oldfield. His 5th...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2003-12-01)

Pink Anvil - Halloween Party

Pink Anvil is a duo of Paul Barker and Max Brody of Ministry. Barker is credited with FM radio and patchbay operation while Brody works a delay and some footswitches. Halloween Party was recorded...

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(Posted by Mike Grimes 2003-12-01)

Satoko Fujii / Tatsuya Yoshida - Toh-Kichi

When the freewheeling chaos and confusion suddenly takes form and finds order, one has to wonder whether this live set recorded at the Victoriaville festival between two of Japan’s premier...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2003-12-01)

Seatrain - Watch

The Blues Project is remembered as an innovative, somewhat erratic band of the mid-60s who combined rock with folk, blues, and jazz. In 1967 they split up, with some members going on to form Blood,...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-12-01)

Similares y Conexos - Gallina Negra

Back in #21 I reviewed a CD by a Mexican band called Similares y Conexos. This is the second...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-12-01)

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Live

The Sleepytime experience is one not soon forgotten; part of what makes it special is the banter and humor that inhabits their set between the regular songs. If you're looking for that stellar...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2003-12-01)

Taal - Skymind

I know it may seem like a glamorous life to be a music critic, getting all those free CDs, getting into shows for free, hobnobbing with the stars. But I assure you, it’s not all it’s cracked up to...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-12-01)

The Building Press - Amplitude of Frequencies over Time

I guess I can’t blame whoever invented the term “math rock”. After all, if you called it what it really is – prog rock, or more accurately, art rock – only people who...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-12-01)

The Dutch Flat - Ghosts

The Dutch Flat doesn’t sound much like the other bands I’ve heard in the post rock genre, but if you have to put them in a genre, that’s probably where they’d go. Tim...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-12-01)

The Hook - Will Grab You

Transitional periods can be very interesting in music. The Hook falls in the transition between 60s garage-psych and 70s hard rock. Reliable information has it that this album dates from 1968 in...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-12-01)

The Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta, on their full-length debut, joins Radiohead as a relatively high profile “alternative rock” group to flirt with progressive elements, and in fact does Radiohead one better (to the...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-12-01)

The Thicket - The Thicket

The Thicket is the Edmonton-based duo of Andrei Poukhovski and Ivan Poukhovski-Sheremetyev, a father-son combination. The instrumentation consists only of keyboards and Theremin, with programmed...

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(Posted by Sean McFee 2003-12-01)

The Walkabouts - Ended up a Stranger

I first encountered the Walkabouts in 1984 when they put out their debut EP on their own Necessity Records. I was struck with their unique interpretation of American folk rock, and really enjoyed...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-12-01)

Thinking Plague - A History of Madness

Most music critics (and listeners too) tend to get caught up in the genre game when describing music. We think in terms of qualities like loud/soft, electric/acoustic, rocks/doesn’t. But...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-12-01)

Tryo - Dos Mundos

From the first set of heavy guitar riffs it’s clear that Chilean power trio Tryo is much more than a guitar, bass, drums outfit from (way) south of the border. In fact I’d venture to...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2003-12-01)

Various Artists - The Best of Baltimore's Buried Bands II

This two CD set was produced by OHO main-mover and elder statesman of the Baltimore progressive scene Jay Graboski. Apparently there must have been a “Part I” (maybe an LP?) and this is...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2003-12-01)

Vermilion - Flattening Mountains and Creating Empires

This album is quite an oddity, coming as it does from a little-known (so far) band on an independent label, for it features a big name producer (Steve Albini) and a big name artist on the cover...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-12-01)