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Kush: Streams of Consciousness Volume Two

Read "Streams of Consciousness Volume Two" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
November 22, 2010

There are no hidden agendas behind this Canadian electronics-oriented band. As stated on the ensemble's website, the music aims to please via a feelgood type manifesto, where jazz, house music, ethereal musings and solid instrumentation coalesce into a fastidiously assembled package. Marked by wah-wah trumpet lines, steady beats and layered effects, the ensemble looms as groove merchants, underscored by several acutely-placed detours. The program features prismatic soundscapes and ethereal electronics treatments. However, the musicians diversify the sound ...

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Album Review

Kush: Streams of Consciousness: Volume One

Read "Streams of Consciousness: Volume One" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
April 17, 2006

The music on this first volume of Streams of Consciousness was inspired by sixty hours of live recordings of Kush's 2003-4 gigs at Toronto's Potato Blues Supper Club. The quartet, which has been nominated for Group of the Year by Canada's Smooth Jazz Awards, pursues a smooth, jazz-fusion contemporary sound, using loops and samples to provide a breezy ambient-electronic touch. Trumpeter Bryden Baird serves as the prime soloist, entrenching his muted lines within warmly stated proclamations atop snappy backbeats. The ...