Exposé print issues (1993-2011)
December 2003
92 Pages
Edgar Froese, Bob Drake, Lars Hollmer, David & Linda Laflamme, NEARFest 2003, Progman Cometh Festival, Seattle 2003, Progday IX, North Carolina 2003
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Panzerpappa is a Norwegian quartet playing a delightful variant of chamber rock. They use electrified instrumentation, keys, winds, acoustic percussion (some exotic), piano, and melodica....
» Read morePanzerZappa maybe? You can sense a certain Zappa-like smartalecky wink in how this Norwegian quartet blends humor and rage, especially on the first track. One of the key ways Panzer grabs your...
» Read morePink 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...
» Read moreWhen 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...
» Read moreThe 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,...
» Read moreBack in #21 I reviewed a CD by a Mexican band called Similares y Conexos. This is the second...
» Read moreThe 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...
» Read moreThe BBC tape archives have long been rumored to contain many long lost recordings by many of best English groups. Most of Hux Records latest two-CD set is a further extension of the excellent...
» Read moreTaal’s Mister Green (2002) [reviewed in Exposé #23] was an impressive debut disk. I’m happy to report that Skymind, the second album, is just as...
» Read moreTaal is a ten-man group that lives up to their medium profile hype by merging high drama with well-crafted semi-classical influences. Guitarist Anthony Guibard and violinist Manu Fournier prove...
» Read moreI 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...
» Read moreThe 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...
» Read moreTransitional 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...
» Read moreThe 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...
» Read moreI 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...
» Read moreGuitarist Mike Johnson is now the indisputable ruler of Thinking Plague as the group wades through its first album since 1999’s exceptional CD
Thinking Plague seems well equipped to tackle an album with this title. They create a mad sort of progressive rock that some might call RIO, though I’m sure Mike Johnson and company would...
» Read moreMost 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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