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Grex has been called "essential current-and-future listening” (Tiny Mix Tapes) and “true genre-warping music” (KFJC). Grex is not just "eclectic"--it synthesizes all of its influences into a brand of music that is truly unique, drawing from psychedelic pop/rock (Hendrix), alternative rock (The Pixies), and modern jazz (Ornette Coleman).
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Breifly Reviewed: Grex - Live at Home
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Ni Kantu by Clifford Allen
GREXLive at Home(SUA) The second part of the AACM dictum of “Great Black Music—Ancient to the Future" surprisingly holds little cross-genre sway. Though groups of many stripes can lay claim to a broad range of influences and an output to match, a true understanding of those forebears is extremely rare, especially when those influences are both within and without from the “jazz" spectrum. Grex is a thankful anomaly in contemporary music, merging not only an affinity, but a true love ...
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