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House Band of the Universe
House Band of the Universe: Cycle Two
by Dan McClenaghan
Cycle Two is all spontaneously composed," and you sit and listen to it and get the feeling these guys have somehow established a kind of musical conduit to the cosmos. Well, it is the House Band of the Universe. It's one of the more difficult, if not impossible, sounds to categorize. With a seeming suspension of time (oddly since there are two drummers involved) the music drifts and wanders, taking what feels like a preordained path of least resistance. The ...
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by Dan McClenaghan
First things first, though it's probably irrelevant, but is House Band of the Universe a great name for a music-making ensemble or what?Now for the relevance: the sounds herein--it might be a suite, though it isn't labeled as such--seem as though they contain some sort of elusive grand significance, just out of reach. Or maybe the opposite is true; maybe there's no meaning at all beyond the joy and wonder of making spontaneous sounds. Not that it matters...
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