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Scott Amendola Band: Cry
by AAJ Staff
Throw Ornette Coleman, King Crimson, Tortoise, and Charlie Hunter into a blender and you'll get the idiosyncratic free jazz/out rock ensemble known as the Scott Amendola Band. Obviously the music on Cry is not too easy to categorize, but it's fun to check out the little bits and pieces here and there to see which ones ...
Scot Ray Quintet: Active Vapor Recovery
by Dan McClenaghan
In your face. That's how the Scot Ray Quintete's Active Vapor Recovery starts out on "Three Quarks." It has to do with attitude and Ray's axe: the trombone, an inherently in-your-face instrument. Ditto for the electric violin (Jeff Gauthier) and the electric guitar in the hands of Nels Cline. Wailing guitar chops and searing violin, combined ...
Erik Friedlander: Quake
by Elliott Simon
Cellist Erik Friedlander has reconvened his unique Topaz quartet with Quake the eclectic result. Stomu and Satoshi Takeishi on fretless electric bass and percussion, respectively, join Andy Laster on alto sax to reprise the same core lineup that has produced two previous strong efforts. Quake picks up and continues these explorations into a heady mix of ...
Bendian, Gauthier, Liebig, Stinson: Bone Structure
by Walter Kolosky
Bone Structure is something different: post-jazz fusion-progressive rock-electronica-jam band music that features a wily sinister vibe. Some of the infectious grooves are reminiscent of those laid down by Ginger Baker and Jonas Hellborg on Baker's very fine and underrated Unseen Rain from several years back. Other influences can be heard as well. From time to time ...
The Music of Eric von Essen, Volume III
Label: Cryptogramophone
Released: 2002
Track listing: Blues for Me; Unresolved; Valse Agite; It's Just One Big Party; The Good
Doctor; Norton's Last Words; Finska Flues; Another Moon; One Eye
Laughs, One Eye Weeps; Flicker and Burn.
Instrumentals
By Nels Cline
Label: Cryptogramophone
Released: 2002
Track listing: A Mug Like Mine; Cause for Concern; Suspended Head; Harbor Child;
Lowered Boom; Lucia; Ghost of the Pinata; Blood Drawing; Slipped Away.
Mask
Label: Cryptogramophone
Released: 2002
Track listing: Clea's Bounce; Waltz For K.P.; Enfant; The Fools; Ephemera - For Eric; Mask; Forgiveness.
Various Artists: The Music of Eric von Essen, Volume III
by AAJ Staff
As Cryptogramophone's three-volume tribute to the late Eric von Essen draws to a close, we find ourselves amazed at the diversity of players, styles, and moods coming together in his honor. Von Essen was not exactly a well-known player, but the large number of musicians assembled here testifies to the depth and impact of his music. ...
The Nels Cline Singers: Instrumentals
by AAJ Staff
From the opening notes of Instrumentals, it rapidly becomes clear that the (entirely vocal-free) Nels Cline Singers are out to make some noise. Guitarist Nels Cline, who has eagerly straddled the divide between jazz and rock, maintains an open ear for dissonance--and this is a big reason he's received such broad recognition. “A Mug Like Mine" ...
Jeff Gauthier: Mask
by Mark Corroto
The “Goat" in violinist Jeff Gauthier's Goatette is the nickname he was tagged with as a child. His band Goatette, together since 1991, adds guitarist Nels Cline for this recording. Gauthier has been a regular collaborator with Nels and his drummer brother Alex Cline since the late-1970s in the ensemble Quartet Music, with deceased legendary bassist ...
