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Article: Album Review

Cosa Brava: Ragged Atlas

Read "Ragged Atlas" reviewed by Mark Corroto


In the last forty years, no one has been about to categorize just what exactly Fred Frith music is. His seminal early work with the British prog-rock band Henry Cow--along with the likes of Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart--developed the idea rock artists could also be accomplished and serious musicians. Later he founded the New York ...

Album

Waxed Oop

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: 01. Sure 'Nuff 'n' Yes I Do; 02. Trust Us; 03. Smithsonian Institute Blues; 04. Dropout Boogie; 05. You Know You're a Man; 06. Well; 07. Ice Rose; 08. Click Clack/Ice Cream For Crow; 09. Woe-is-uh-Me-Bop; 10. The Blimp; 11. The Past Sure is Tense; 12. Blabber 'n' Smoke; 13. China Pig

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Fast 'n' Bulbous: Waxed Oop

Read "Waxed Oop" reviewed by Nic Jones


The idea of the music of Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) without his idiosyncratic bark of a voice might be difficult for devotees to take, much as his music will perhaps always be for other people. The sharp division of opinion this might imply is however rendered irrelevant by the strength of this program, the purpose ...

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Article: Album Review

Fast 'N' Bulbous: Waxed Oop

Read "Waxed Oop" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il repertorio di Captain Beefheart continua a fornire suggestioni e sollecitazioni al settetto guidato da Phillip Johnston e Gary Lucas. Si passa dal blues più intenso e tradizionale del brano iniziale alla follia iconoclasta di “The Blimp" e di buona parte degli altri brani selezionati accuratamente dai due leader e arrangiati con grande cura dei dettagli ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Fast 'n' Bulbous: Waxed Oop

Read "Fast 'n' Bulbous: Waxed Oop" reviewed by Martin Longley


Fast 'n' Bulbous Waxed Oop Cuneiform 2009 Many people would agree with alto saxophonist Phillip Johnston's assertion that Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart) was one of the twentieth century's very greatest composers. He was also one of its key innovators, conceptualists, singers and poets. When an artist ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Gods and Monsters @ Bowery Poetry Club NYC This Saturday, Dec. 1st 10PM

Gods and Monsters @ Bowery Poetry Club NYC This Saturday, Dec. 1st 10PM

GARY LUCAS & GODS AND MONSTERS Bowery Poetry Club NYC Saturday, December 1st 308 Bowery (corner of Bleecker) 10pm $15 With Ernie Brooks (bass), Billy Ficca (drums), Jason Candler (alto sax), and Joe Hendel (keyboards and trombone)-- special guest Aishlin Harrison (vocals) “THE GROUP IS MINDBLOWING!" ...

Album

Coming Clean

Label: Mighty Quinn Productions
Released: 2006

Album

The Edge of Heaven

Label: Label Bleu
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Old Dreams; 2. Please Allow Me to Look at You Again; 3. The Mad World; 4. The Wall; 5. If I'm Without You; 6. Night in Shanghai; 7. Where is My Home; 8. Songstress on the Edge of Heaven; 9. I Wait for Your Return; 10. Pretense; 11. The Moon in the Street; 12. The Wall; 13. Please Allow Me to Look at You Again

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Article: Album Review

Gary Lucas: The Edge of Heaven

Read "The Edge of Heaven" reviewed by AAJ Staff


These days it seems like producers are constantly scrambling for the next “untouched" genre to market, from Cuban sones to hardcore bluegrass to bamboo percussion from Micronesia. Novelty sells, or so they believe. Thus the hype surrounding Gary Lucas's latest album, The Edge of Heaven. Some of you may know Lucas from his edgy guitar work ...


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