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Gordian Knot: Muttersprache

By Geno Thackara
August 13, 2026
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Sean Malone was the kind of bassist who could never simply stick to the basic support role if his life depended on it. He spun kaleidoscopic bass/Stick parts across a myriad of fusion, prog and/or metal recordings, but his particular harmonic wizardry never came out more eloquently than on this solo outlet. Gordian Knot had a rare knack for building layered structures as twisty as its namesake and yet also just as artful.

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