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Available online from Issue 30

September 2004

92 Pages

Les Tritonales Festival, Paris 2004, Matraz, KBB, John Duval, Baja Prog 2004, Trettioariga Kriget, Strawbs feature (Interviews with Dave Cousins & Dave Lambert), Fred Frith interview

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Larry Coryell / Badi Assad / John Abercrombie - Three Guitars

Cover art Larry Coryell and John Abercrombie have long been at the forefront of international jazz guitar, utilizing both acoustic and electric formats. Badi Assad is a Brazilian ace performer who had not...  » Read more
(Posted by Jeff Melton 2004-09-01)

Lesli Dalaba / Fred Frith / Eric Glick Rieman / Carla Kihlstedt - Dalaba Frith Glick Rieman Kihlsted

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Another super group of improvisers meet at the crossroads with this collection of seven dialogs. Fred Frith is well known to our readers as a proprietor of real time inspirational chaos while Lesli...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2004-09-01)

Magma - Rock Duo »Magma«

Cover art As the story goes, this German duo was unaware of a French band with the same name, and they certainly bear no stylistic resemblance to their more widely known and prolific namesake. Drummer Siegfried...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2004-09-01)

Mani Neumeier + Friends - Terra Amphibia: Deep in the Jungle

Cover art Terra Amphibia is the project which occupies Mani Neumeier during time away from Guru Guru. World music and East Asian culture appropriation are Mani’s hobbies, which find him jamming and flirting...  » Read more
(Posted by Mike Ezzo 2004-09-01)

Mar de Robles - Mar de Robles (MdR)

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This Chilean four- or five-piece (depending on where you look in the booklet) was a pleasant surprise. A rhythm section of fretless bass and subtle drum kit, along with congas and other assorted...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2004-09-01)

Matraz - Gritaré

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I’m a big fan of many female vocalists, with Tori Amos, Björk, Kate Bush, Jane Siberry, and others high on my all-time favorite artist list. It’s always been a disappointment to me...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2004-09-01)

Nautilus - In Search of Castaways

Cover art The Prudence label based in Germany is well known for their output of nice, romantic music. This new release by a young band called Nautilus (Martin Ludwig: Keys, synthesizer and sequencer; Werner...  » Read more
(Posted by Roel Steverink 2004-09-01)

Németh Gábor Project - Könnyü lépések (Easy Steps)

Cover art Németh is a Hungarian drummer and employs a large number of sidemen on this collection of ten tracks on the Periferic label. The music here is post-bop, or whatever one wishes to call music with a...  » Read more
(Posted by Sean McFee 2004-09-01)

Paul Rucker & Hans Teuber - History of an Apology & Oil

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Like Nels and Alex Cline, Satoko Fujii, and even Henry Threadgill (all with their various ensembles), Paul Rucker produces music that is usually referred to as jazz, but has such far-ranging...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2004-09-01)

Persuader - Evolution Purgatory

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Everybody has dark moods. It’s part of being human, and – let’s face it – this world is a pretty screwed up place. Those of us who don’t have lighter moods to offset...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2004-09-01)

Pineapple Thief - Variations on a Dream

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I hope I don’t turn anyone off by saying Pineapple Thief has as much in common with Radiohead, Coldplay, and Smashing Pumpkins as they do with anyone in the prog community. In my book,...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2004-09-01)

Poetica in Silentio - What Do Fish Know?

Cover art Over the last few years, a number of bands have tackled the problem of applying the best features of classic progressive rock to more modern sounds, and other bands seem to have achieved the same sort...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2004-09-01)

Quique Berro García - Sueños

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Is beauty enough? Good music can have many other qualities we love it for – power, originality, complexity, emotional impact, and so on. But is beauty alone sufficient to recommend a...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2004-09-01)

Satoko Fujii Quartet - Zephyros

Cover art Maybe it’s meant as a challenge to the listener, maybe not, but pianist Satoko Fujii has placed the most difficult track on her latest quartet offering first in sequence, as if saying, “You made...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2004-09-01)

Shine (Buckethead, Bill Laswell, Shin Terai) - Heaven and Hell

Cover art Given the list of participants in this recording (Buckethead, Bill Laswell, and Shin Terai with Nicky Skopelitis, Bernie Worrell and Robert Musso), several possibilities come to mind. It could be a...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2004-09-01)

Vanderhoof - A Blur in Time

Cover art Those who have heard of Kurdt Vanderhoof will know him as a member of the band Metal Church. I’m no fan of that band (or metal in general), but I had heard his other-band-cum-solo-project Vanderhoof...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2004-09-01)

Various Artists - Modern Drummer Presents Volume One - Drum Nation

Cover art Magna Carta has aligned with Modern Drummer magazine to bring you the best of who’s out there pounding the skins in the music world today. Eleven drummers on twelve tracks give a severe cerebral...  » Read more
(Posted by Jeff Melton 2004-09-01)

Various Artists - Ryko Twentieth Anniversary

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It's surprising that Rykodisc is still around, considering that the advent of digital recordings and CDs has now evolved and been relegated to old school. Since it is a year of anniversaries,...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2004-09-01)

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