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Tom Hamilton / Bruce Eisenbeil: Shadow Machine

Read "Shadow Machine" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
January 9, 2010

Guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil continues to push beyond the outer reaches of the guitar universe, building on the work of pioneers like Derek Bailey and Fred Frith. His career trajectory takes him ever farther from the jazz mother lode, and his last outing--on Totem>'s Solar Forge (ESP, 2008)--stretched the boundaries of the guitar power trio to breaking ...

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Solar Forge

By Bruce Eisenbeil

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2009
Track listing: Blooming Ore; Austenized; Hephaestus' Wrath; Annealed.

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John Hebert: Byzantine Monkey

Read "Byzantine Monkey" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
June 21, 2009

Bassist John Hebert was a member of guitarist Mary Halvorson's trio that put out the memorable Dragon's Head on Firehouse 12 in 2008, while Michael Attias has recorded with guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil on Opium (2002) for CIMP, one of the most rewarding titles of the last ten years. This program thus has a lot to live ...

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Dave Fox Group featuring Bruce Eisenbeil: Home Again

Read "Home Again" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
June 21, 2009

The third release of the Dave Fox group, augmented now by avant-guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil, presents free improvised music at its best. This is adventurous music that's raw, muscular, unstructured, intense, idiosyncratic in its risk-taking approach but still cohesive in a unique way. The group is comprised of North Carolina's Greensboro College music educator Fox (here on ...

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Tom Hamilton / Bruce Eisenbeil: Shadow Machine

Read "Shadow Machine" reviewed by Martin Longley

by Martin Longley
May 14, 2009

Hazily speaking, electronicist Tom Hamilton emerges from a modern classical realm, while guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil inhabits the jazz improvising zone. On this album, such stylistic concerns are very nearly unimportant, as the pair are engaging in their own language of free improvisation. There's more space in this music, although Hamilton and Eisenbeil never cut back on ...

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Totem: Solar Forge

Read "Solar Forge" reviewed by Martin Longley

by Martin Longley
March 17, 2009

This is one of New York's most exciting improvising combos, but the Totem trio tends to ration out its gigs, rarely playing in the area. Thus, their Brooklyn-recorded disc, Solar Forgeis recommended. Even though no performance will be alike, it's a reasonable guide to the trio's general sound and strategy. Bruce Eisenbeil's guitar ...

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Solar Forge

By Bruce Eisenbeil

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2008
Track listing: Blooming Ore; Austenized; Hephaestus' Wrath; Annealed.

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Totem>: Solar Forge

Read "Solar Forge" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
October 19, 2008

The significance of the “>“ sign in the group's name is unclear, but if it was taken to suggest that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts then few would argue. With components like Brooklyn-based guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil, bassist Tom Blancarte and drummer Andrew Drury, the result is certain to bear scant resemblance ...

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Totem>: Solar Forge

Read "Solar Forge" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman
August 12, 2008

There is an observation, which seconds as an insider joke, about free jazz and the loft scene in the sixties: “There is no such thing as a bad session. Why? Because you cannot tell...." The implication here is, given that jazz is what the players say it is and that if there are no principles on ...

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Inner Constellation Volume 1

By Bruce Eisenbeil

Label: NEMU Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Inner Constellation: Autumn Light, Elastic Horizon, Enter Fresh Juicy, Three Uninvited Guests, Clinging Fire, Being Drawn, Phat on the Runway, Effigy, Totem, Mask in Profile, Triple Astra Texture, Walkabout, Transformation, Death Once Dead, No Dying Then, Dream Breath, Richter Smears, Spiral Blue, Wormhole Thief, Red Pepper Pods, Add Wings to Them, Dragonfly, Eucalyptus, Spice Enters the Groovy Night, Autumn Clouds, Burning Nest, Keeping Still Mountain, Inner Constellation, Sonic Ocean; Rain in the Face; Cues to the Vagabond; Receding Storm.