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Scott Amendola Band

Believe

By Scott Amendola Band

Label: Cryptogramophone
Released: 2005
Track listing: Believe; Olidapo; Shady; If Only Once; Buffalo Bird Woman; Smarty Pants; Valentine; Resistance; Cesar Chavez

Scott Amendola Band: Believe

by Michael McCaw
September 3, 2005

With instrumentation that includes up to 26 reverberating strings accompanying a drum kit, Scott Amendola's Believe has a lot of resonance. Comprised of Jenny Scheinman (violin), Nels Cline and Jeff Parker (guitars), John Shifflett (bass), and Amendola (drums, percussion and electronics); the album should stand as a high water mark for all types of music this ...

Scott Amendola Band: Believe

by John Kelman
June 6, 2005

Scott Amendola may be a drummer, but he loves guitars, which he made perfectly clear on his first two releases. Scott Amendola Band (2000) featured guitarist Dave McNabb, while his first Cryptogramophone release, Cry (2003), found him teaming up with Nels Cline, with whom he also works in the guitarist's band, the Nels Cline Singers. But ...

Scott Amendola Band: Believe

by AAJ Staff
June 3, 2005

A quick look at the personnel on this record should make two things clear right away, before you even hit play. First, the assorted misfits in the collection, who have worked in a mind-blowing array of improvised and experimental music styles, aren't likely to be pinned down or categorized here any more than they are elsewhere. ...

Cry

By Scott Amendola Band

Label: Cryptogramophone
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. His Eye Is on the Sparrow (5:51) 2. Bantu (4:49) 3. A Cry for John Brown (12:03) 4. Whisper, Scream (9:32) 5. My Son the Wanderer (9:10) 6. Streetbeat (6:41) 7. Masters of War (9:12) 8. Rosa (8:08)

Scott Amendola Band: Cry

by AAJ Staff
July 25, 2003

Throw Ornette Coleman, King Crimson, Tortoise, and Charlie Hunter into a blender and you'll get the idiosyncratic free jazz/out rock ensemble known as the Scott Amendola Band. Obviously the music on Cry is not too easy to categorize, but it's fun to check out the little bits and pieces here and there to see which ones ...