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Chimpan A - Chimpan A

Don’t read too much into the Simpsons reference in the name of this group. It’s all business with these guys, being Rob Reed (keyboards) from Magenta and Steve Balsamo (vocals) and Rob...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2007-03-01)

Clogs - Lantern

The high finish that contemporary chamber and smaller scale orchestral works exude in their discipline, precision, delicacy, and complexity has typically received only a cursory and sideways glance...

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(Posted by K. Leimer 2007-03-01)

Colour Haze - Tempel

While there are numerous bands out there breaking new ground and never looking back, there are just as many others breathing new life into tried and true styles of decades long gone. For vintage...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2007-03-01)

Coronarias Dans - Visitor

Every corner of the world, so it would seem, has a closet chock full of musical gems waiting to be discovered. From a corner of Denmark's junk room, this wonderful little jewel comes to delight...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2007-03-01)

Cos - Pasiones

Only guitarist Daniel Schell remains from the time when Cos recorded the great Canterbury-esque Postaeolian Train Robbery (1974), and he’s relocated to Spain. It appears that some of...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2007-03-01)

Crimson Jazz Trio - King Crimson Songbook Volume One

Veteran session drummer Ian Wallace leads a capable international trio with this first volume of King Crimson classics done up for modern piano-based ensemble. The key to the dizzying success of...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2007-03-01)

Crowther / Franklin / Marsh - Amherst Dislodged

Here’s an album by the British trio of Tim Crowther (guitar, guitar synth), Steve Franklin (keyboards), and Tony Marsh (drums). Everything here is improvised, with nine tracks tending towards...

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(Posted by Sean McFee 2007-03-01)

D.S. Lionfire - Jerusalem: A Symphonic Saga - Part I: The Mask of Love

Jerusalem: A Symphonic Saga is a collosal undertaking of a fellow who calls himself D.S. Lionfire. He calls this creation of his an opera, the first part twenty years in the making, and...

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(Posted by Roel Steverink 2007-03-01)

Danielson - Ships

An erstwhile aberrant choir of miscreants, stumbling over themselves to get their operatic avant-garde leaning message out, might seem daunting at first. Sure, initially there will be a short sharp...  » Read more
(Posted by Cesar Montesano 2007-03-01)

David Bagsby - Hallucinographs

David Bagsby’s latest release, Hallucinographs, is an electronic album created from just one synthesizer and a drum machine. Don’t let that fool you into thinking that means...

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(Posted by Mike Grimes 2007-03-01)

David Gilmour - On an Island

Longtime Pink Floyd Guitarist Dave Gilmour is living the perfect rock star dream. Having completed the unlikely Live 8 reunion and sidestepped label pressure to restart the band, the guitarist...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2007-03-01)

David Myers - Plays Genesis

I'm amazed at the degree of involvement a person can have with a narrowly focused music interest and the length of time it can be maintained. David Meyers' relationship with Genesis'...

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(Posted by Mac Beaulieu 2007-03-01)

Davison/Coleman - Forward Motion

The folk-based singer-songwriter genre (if that’s what you want to call it) is in some ways the most basic form of music there is: a person devises music and then performs it all on their own. In...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2007-03-01)

Ded Ringer - Ded Ahead

Life in the past lane. Call it retro, but rock music like this just isn't made anymore. On their fifth full-length disc this Bay Area trio dishes it up with enough credibility and authenticity to...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2007-03-01)

Deluge Grander - August in the Urals

Here’s one that came out of the blue. Maybe I haven’t been paying attention, or maybe the action is half a world away from me, but somewhere out there is a prog band called Deluge...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2007-03-01)

Dino Saluzzi Group - Juan Condori

Bandoneon playing within a jazz structure is not a new idea, as it dates back to the 50s with many French and international acts, exemplified by Django Reinhardt’s hot bands. Argentinian...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2007-03-01)

Dirty Projectors - The Getty Address

Dopamine on crutches flying straight to the heart of freak-folk Americana. Welcome to the song cycle of a cloth cut from the same material as Van Dyke Parks' most evangelized piece of work, updated...  » Read more
(Posted by Cesar Montesano 2007-03-01)

Don Caballero - World Class Listening Problem

Don Caballero is one of those bands that is probably better off not being categorized. They’re often thrown into the post-rock or math rock bins, though if you ask me, what they play is...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2007-03-01)

Dragonwyck - Dragonwyck

In case you're wondering, Dragonwyck is the title of a 1944 historical romance by Anya Seton, made into a movie starring Gene Tierney and Vincent Price. This Dragonwyck, on the other hand,...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2007-03-01)

Dwight Ashley - Ataxia

Ataxia offers a defining example of the way in which musical forms, and especially the way we tend to want to categorize music, continues to exhibit restlessness and the need for change....

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(Posted by K. Leimer 2007-03-01)