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8 Bold Souls: Last IOption

by Mark Corroto
April 1, 2000

Maybe the time is right for creative music. I’m not going to say “jazz music” because I’ll scare a quarter of the readers and 98% of record buyers away. But with this release on Thrill Jockey, an alternative electronic/pop/rock/punk label, creative music may just find its audience. Today’s creative music listener might stack Hip-Hop next to Ennio Morricone, Les Baxter, and John Zorn’s Masada. The modern discriminating listener is motivated more by musicianship than anarchy. Essentially that was the credo ...