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Citay - Citay

Led Zeppelin’s “Battle of Evermore”; Black Sabbath’s “Planet Caravan”; Heart’s “Soul of the Sea”; Uriah Heep’s “The Wizard.”...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2006-05-01)

Claudia Quintet - Semi-formal

The Claudia Quintet is back with another lovely set of what I think of as Chamber Jazz. While the music mostly gives the impression of being pretty thoroughly composed, there is a looseness to the...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2006-05-01)

Cluster & Eno - Cluster & Eno

It’s really hard to understand what this music meant at the time it was recorded. Intellectually we can recall that ambient music was in its infancy, with the term only coined (by Mr. Eno)...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2006-05-01)

CocoRosie - La Maison de Mon Rêve & Noah's Ark

With childlike glee, these sisters embrace one's ear with aural tincture. Romanced beautifully by tiny fragmentary conscious nests, we become ensconced within the folds of their rapturous...

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(Posted by Cesar Montesano 2006-05-01)

Cousins and Conrad - High Seas

The old Strawbs troubadour is back on High Seas, collaborating with guitarist/keyboardist Conny Conrad. Eleven tracks totaling fifty-some minutes, with Cousins singing over backing guitar,...

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(Posted by Sean McFee 2006-05-01)

Coven - Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls

This is one of the freakiest things I've ever heard — a psychedelic rock recording from the late 60s entirely based on a kind of horror-movie Satanism, including more than thirteen minutes devoted...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2006-05-01)

Crasdant - Nos Sadwrn Bach

Crasdant is an all-instrumental folk band featuring four greats from the Welsh trad scene: harpist Robin Huw Bown, flautist/piper Andy McLauclin, fiddler/accordionist Stephen Rees, and...  » Read more
(Posted by Jim Chokey 2006-05-01)

Crazy World - Crazy World

What happens when you take the best of Finland’s rock stars of today and yesteryear, put them all together in one supergroup, and have them write and perform a bunch of songs in the style of...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2006-05-01)

Cream - Disraeli Gears - Deluxe Edition

What comes to mind when you think of psychedelic blues rock? For me, it’s Cream. They were the most important UK rock band out of the 60s besides the Beatles and the Stones. Eric Clapton,...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2006-05-01)

Create - From Earth to Mars

Why is it, that outside the realm of EM-admirers, few people, even people who do like EM, don’t like Klaus Schulze’s music? The answer lies in its static structure, where other artists...

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(Posted by Roel Steverink 2006-05-01)

Crowell, Doles & Quinn - Don't Look Down

This collaborative effort is something of a minimalist supergroup; American composer Dac Crowell and Scottish composer and Suilven recordings main-mover Daniel Patrick Quinn have teamed up with...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2006-05-01)

Cyndee Lee Rule - UFOsmosis

Cyndee Lee Rule is a new force in the Space Rock arena. She has played with the Philly band Scattered Planets for several years and will appear on Systems Theory’s new CD later in 2006....

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2006-05-01)

Daniel J - Losing Time

Daniel J (Jakubovic) is the lead guitarist of gigging New York based metal quartet Against the Wall. The young fret-bender adopts a mode of self-reliance in the course of thirteen tracks of prog...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2006-05-01)

David Bagsby - Syllogisms

“I don’t think, therefore I am not.” Bagsby has long been a master of unpredictability and eccentric works that fit squarely into no categories, and his latest,...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2006-05-01)

David Cross - Closer Than Skin

Ex-King Crimson violinist David Cross is back again with a confident follow-up to his acclaimed Exiles CD. Cross and writing partner, bassist Mick Paul, continue to refine their...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2006-05-01)

David Pack - The Secret of Movin' On

Former Ambrosia guitarist and vocalist David Pack has become the quintessential example of L.A. pop music roadkill. Well past his peak of commercial success and fame and ten years since his last solo...  » Read more
(Posted by Paul Hightower 2006-05-01)

David Shamrock - Thin Pillow

David Shamrock has drummed for both Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (on their first album) and Thinking Plague (on A History of Madness). This eight track CD is his first solo release. For those...

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(Posted by Jim Chokey 2006-05-01)

Dean de Benedictis - Salvaging the Past

De Benedictis, as the title points out, not only refers to the legacy, but even reinvents the past on this album. The stunning opener, “The Tech Atonement of Bilagana,” unearths a...

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(Posted by Roel Steverink 2006-05-01)

Death and Taxe$ - The Alaska 12 Expeditions

It would be easy to recommend this album based purely on the circumstances surrounding its release. What started out as the next D&T album turned into a completely different and ultimately more...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2006-05-01)

DésAccordes (Erik Baron) - In C

Erik Baron is a French bassist we’ve heard from before (his excellent Cordayades CD from a few years ago was favorably reviewed in issue #29), but this time out his primary role is...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2006-05-01)