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Dennis Rea: Zero-G and the Sea Prog Festival

Read "Dennis Rea: Zero-G and the Sea Prog Festival" reviewed by Jack Gold-Molina


Based in Seattle, guitarist Dennis Rea has a long history playing creative and experimental music as well as progressive rock. In the late 1980s and early 1990s he lived and performed in China, putting together some of the earliest tours by Western musicians performing non-mainstream music, and in 2006 he published a book about his experiences there entitled Live at the Forbidden City: Musical Encounters in China and Taiwan. Rea also has a history of being involved in organizing creative ...

Album Review

Moraine: Metamorphic Rock (Live at NEARfest)

Read "Metamorphic Rock (Live at NEARfest)" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il gruppo Moraine ruota attorno alle poliedriche doti del chitarrista americano Dennis Rea che ben sa come far scorrere la musica nei suoi vari progetti. In questo caso lo scenario prevalente è quello del rock progressivo che curiosamente li porta più dalle parti di gruppi un po' dimenticati come gli East of Eden che non nel cortile dei soliti gruppi di riferimento (King Crimson su tutti). Rispetto al precedente Manifest Density in questo ottimo Metamorphic Rock (registrato dal vivo al ...

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Album Review

Iron Kim Style: Iron Kim Style

Read "Iron Kim Style" reviewed by Mark Redlefsen


On Iron Kim Style, guitarist Dennis Rea has created a CD of entirely improvised music, set against themes mostly about North Korea and it's nefarious ruler, Kim Jong-Il. Rea might not have possibly foreseen just how much the tension between North and South Korea would escalate as it has in recent times. The art work on the outside of the CD portrays a very militant landscape of North Korea, with a perfectly scaled photo of Kim Jong-Il inserted into the ...

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Dennis Rea: Views from Chicheng Precipice

Read "Views from Chicheng Precipice" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Seattle-based guitarist Dennis Rea discloses a 360-degree U-turn, contrasting his work with the hemi-powered progressive rock and jazz fusion bands, Iron Kim Style and Moraine. Rea's Asian-derived fusion--of rock, avant-garde, Asian folk and Western classical concepts--spawns a translucent and rather kaleidoscopic genre-busting sequence of musical events.The album opener “Three Views from Chicheng Precipice (after Bai Juyi)," establishes Rea's distinct Asian paradigms, integrated with percussion, strings, woodwinds and off-kilter metrics. He incorporates a myriad of tonal contrasts into his ...

Album Review

Dennis Rea: Views from Chicheng Precipice

Read "Views from Chicheng Precipice" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il chitarrista americano Dennis Rea, al centro di interessanti progetti come Iron Kim Style e Moraine, mette a nudo la sua anima orientale (è vissuto a lungo in Cina) con questo album direttamente accreditato a suo nome. La musica è dolente e riflessiva, pervasa da uno spirito orientale che aleggia supremo, senza però lasciarsi trascinare nel deja vu o nel revival. Questa è una musica moderna e antica allo stesso tempo, proprio perché riesce magicamente ad essere fuori dal tempo, ...

Album Review

Iron Kim Style: Iron Kim Style

Read "Iron Kim Style" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Mettete assieme la lucida follia del chitarrista Dennis Rea e la pazzia mediterranea/atlantica dello straordinario producer Leonardo Pavkovic, scuotete bene, aggiungete, tanto per gradire, un dittatore coreano in visita pastorale e avrete uno dei migliori dischi dell'anno. E lo diciamo in anticipo, visto che l'anno è ancora lungo. Ma difficilmente saremo smentiti. Perché l'energia di questo album è davvero inarrivabile. E la coerenza del progetto è al di sopra di ogni sospetto. Anche il vecchio Miles sarebbe molto fiero di ...


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