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Mushroom with Eddie Gale: Joint Happening

Read "Joint Happening" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


I'll resist any pun that might connect the words “mushroom and “joint but more than a little psychedelia wafts like incense and patchouli through this collaboration between progressive rock and jazz veterans. Mushroom is a more-or-less underground ensemble led by drummer Pat Thomas that has explored modern instrumental rock and jazz from its San ...

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Mushroom with Eddie Gale: Joint Happening

Read "Joint Happening" reviewed by Robert Iannapollo


Mushroom was formed in the late 1990s by drummer Pat Thomas as a loose performing collective and has developed a small but quite rabid following. Lumped in with the jamband genre, they've never garnered quite the same amount of attention as other exemplars. Perhaps part of the reason is that they are not exclusively a jamband ...

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Mushroom with Eddie Gale: Joint Happening

Read "Joint Happening" reviewed by Troy Collins


The Oakland, California based instrumental band Mushroom has been blending psychedelia, fusion, post-rock, free jazz, Krautrock and grooving funk into a heady stew for ten years. Tying together their disparate influences through example, Mushroom has played with members of Krautrock pioneers Faust, Daevid Allen of Gong, Bundy K. Brown of Tortoise, and Kevin Ayers of Soft ...

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Mushroom with Eddie Gale: Joint Happening

Read "Joint Happening" reviewed by Mark Corroto


The convergence of San Francisco psychedelic post-jazz collective Mushroom and trumpeter Eddie Gale seems preordained. For the past ten years the collective has been performing music in the spirit of Can, Gong, Soft Machine, and the Allman Brothers. Finding that Eddie Gale lives on the west coast certainly caused the convergence of his horn with this ...

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Mushroom with Eddie Gale: Joint Happening

Read "Joint Happening" reviewed by Chris May


Here's a pocketful of magic to feed your head, lest you forgot what the doormouse said. The none-too-subtly titled Joint Happening is a psilocybin-drenched shot of late 1960s astral jazz with the funk filtered out and replaced by post-rave “tribal" beats and an art-rock keyboards and guitar sensibility referencing bands like Gong and Can. It's the ...


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