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Compassionate Dictatorship

Entertaining Tyrants

By Compassionate Dictatorship

Label: Jellymould Jazz
Released: 2013
Track listing: Anger Management; In The Chophouse; Bubble And Squeak; Sit Tight; Universal 4; Ratios; Pottering Around; Precious; Loop.

Compassionate Dictatorship: Entertaining Tyrants

by Bruce Lindsay
June 30, 2013

Six years after its debut album, Coup D'Etat (FMR Records, 2007), and three years after its follow-up, Cash Cows (FMR Records, 2010), Compassionate Dictatorship returns with Entertaining Tyrants. Album number three finds the London-based quartet moving away from the influence of progressive rock, which shaped some of Cash Cows, and into a sound that is much ...

Twelves: The Adding Machine

by Bruce Lindsay
March 9, 2011

In 2008, Twelves Trio released its debut album, the evocatively-titled Here Comes The Woodman With His Splintered Soul (1965 Records). The band has since added guitarist Rob Updegraff, dropped the Trio appellation, changed record labels, and released album number two, the more prosaically named The Adding Machine. The band's intention to explore, improvise and develop sonically ...

Cash Cows

By Compassionate Dictatorship

Label: FMR Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Mushroom Effect; The Winkel Picker; Alien Landscape; Mr Mish Mash; Computers; Six Degrees; Emotional Baggage; Both Sides Now.

Compassionate Dictatorship: Cash Cows

by Bruce Lindsay
June 30, 2010

Compassionate Dictatorship inhabits a musical space where modern jazz and '60s-era Canterbury scene progressive rock meet. It's a strange space, ready to trap the unwary in a muddle of English whimsy or to reward the more enlightened with warm melodies and inventive but accessible tunes. Compassionate Dictatorship is an enlightened combo and the reward is apparent ...

Coup d'Etat

By Compassionate Dictatorship

Label: FMR Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: The Hang; Bladey; Brain Pickle; Seizmic; Virtual Joyride; It

Compassionate Dictatorship: Coup d'Etat

by Ben McDonnell
November 6, 2007

An eclectic amalgam of improvisation, strong melodic themes and rhythmic twists is perhaps the best way to characterize Coup d'Etat, the debut album by Compassionate Dictatorship. Comprised of four of London's most prominent jazz musicians--Jez Franks (guitar), Tori Freestone (sax), Jasper Hoiby (bass) and Ben Raynolds (drums)--Compassionate Dictatorship manages to achieve a ...