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Elevating Device

Label: Sounds Are Active
Released: 2010
Track listing: Elevating Device.

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Nels Cline / G.E.Stinson: Elevating Device

Read "Elevating Device" reviewed by Ian Patterson


It is entirely appropriate that Sounds Are Active's fiftieth release since its inception in 1999 should be Elevating Device by Nels Cline and G.E. Stinson , two of the freer spirits of contemporary music. This recording, like much of the music from this label, provides challenging listening with music of a spirit unrestrained by convention and ...

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Ellul

Label: Sounds Are Active
Released: 2008
Track listing: Ballet Faces; Maniacs Collide; Blood; Esophagus; Listen; Freedom; Swamp king; Around the Bend; Fragrance; Enamel On Iron.

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Ellul: Ellul

Read "Ellul" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Ellul, the self-titled debut from Joel St. Julien and Joel Brown-Tarman, is a fine feather in the cap for Sounds Are Active helmsman and champion of creative music Chris Schlarb. These ten songs are searching and tender, dark and illuminating, and nothing short of masterpieces of the songwriting craft. Joel St. Julien's ...

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A Prospect of Freedom

Label: Sounds Are Active
Released: 2007
Track listing: A Prospect of Freedom; Sonny Sharrock; When A Single Flower Blooms it is Spring Everywhere; Circus Hammer; Six Dreams/Divided; In (our) Own Backyard; Gutei Holds up a Finger; Durindana.

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Between Them a Forest Grew, Trackless and Quiet

Label: Sounds Are Active
Released: 2007
Track listing: Maleem Ya Maleem; The Perennial Affair; If I Were a Young Man Now; Lycanthropy; Useless, Useless; Three (Siblings); Moving Through Color 1; Song of the Boatman on the River Roon; Wheelchair Graduation; Retrospective; Moving Through Color 2.

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I Heart Lung: Between Them a Forest Grew, Trackless and Quiet

Read "Between Them a Forest Grew, Trackless and Quiet" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Between Them a Forest Grew, Trackless and Quiet is a title which might not seem out of place in a collection of metaphysical poetry, although whilst such poetry appeals largely to the intellect, the music of I Heart Lung appeals to the emotions. Nevertheless, the metaphysical poets and guitarist Chris Schlarb and drummer Tom ...

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Create(!): A Prospect of Freedom

Read "A Prospect of Freedom" reviewed by Ian Patterson


It was King Crimson's Robert Fripp who said: “Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end. The guitarist from Dorset, England would no doubt be intrigued by Create(!), a Californian free-form collective. Here, on A Prospect of Freedom, two guitarists, a clarinetist and a trumpeter plus rhythm section improvise forty minutes ...


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