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About Volare

Album Review

Volare', an instrumental, Canterbury prog style band from Athens, GA, released their sole full length CD The Uncertainty Principle in 1997 on Laser's Edge and disbanded within the following year. Memoirs..., on Pleasant Green Records, combines the five songs on their out of print, self-titled debut cassette from July 1996 with “Memoirs of a Misshapen Man," recorded live at the Baltimore Progressive Rock Showcase in January 1997, “Oxford Don," improvised live in the studio during the March 1997 The Uncertainty ...

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Album Review

Volare: The Uncertainty Principle

Read "The Uncertainty Principle" reviewed by John W. Patterson

by John W. Patterson
May 1, 1999

I don't often do this but here goes . . . BUY THIS. If you call yourself a prog rocker, Canterbury scene music lover, retro-art-rocker, avant-garde dabbler, jazzy fusionist, or just plain eclectically oriented as myself — quickly find this.Volar' '90s tribute to all that was cool in the open-ended experimentation of the '70s is pure finesse, polished, engaging and downright fun. Not a single track is weak. Patrick Strawser is a genius on keys and synth. Steve Hatch knows ...