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The Wrong Object: After the Exhibition
by Dave Wayne
Sometime during the late 1960s, adventurous European rock musicians led by the likes of Gong, Soft Machine, Magma, and Arzachel began incorporating elements of avant-garde jazz, contemporary classical and various ethnic musics into their own original progressive rock music. The result varied somewhat from region to region, but the most important thing was that very little ...
Meet David Wayne
by AAJ Staff
I currently live in: Santa Fe, NM I joined All About Jazz in: 2004 What made you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? I am a music fanatic. I play the drums. I was involved in college radio for years and I'd love to do a show again. Maybe when I ...
Soft Machine Legacy: Burden of Proof
by Dave Wayne
Over the course of three albums released between 1968 and 1970, the British band Soft Machine transformed from one of the trippiest and mind-bendingly inventive rock bands of the psychedelic era into a raging musical torrent of free jazz, thunderous prog rock, and high- concept minimalist-inspired avant-garde stylings. With the dizzying changes in musical direction came ...
Acid Mothers Temple and Melting Paraiso UFO: Son of a Bitches Brew
by Dave Wayne
One would have to be living in a cave not to know that trumpeter Miles Davis' electric music has become a bit of a cause célèbre amongst forward-thinking jazz artists. Love it or hate it, Davis' radical experiments with funk, acid rock, and Stockhausen-inspired sound painting has quickly gone from much-maligned to iconic over the past ...
Steven Wilson: Luck's What You Make It
by John Kelman
There was a time when progressive rock really meant what its name suggested: progressive music, music that pushed the boundaries of what rock music was, often by integrating elements of classical music and jazz into the mix. Milestone groups ranging from better-knowns like Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Gentle Giant and Van der Graaf Generator ...
Slivovitz: Bani Ahead
by Dave Wayne
Slivovitz--also the generic name for a type of plum brandy popular throughout the Mediterranean--is a fascinating jazz-rock band that's been around for a decade or so. Bani Ahead, its second recording for the MoonJune label and third overall, is a charming blend of jazz and progressive rock with pronounced Balkan and circum-Mediterranean folk influences. Part of ...
Emigrants
By Gong
Label: Leo Records
Released: 2011
Track listing:
1. Emigrants - 7:30; 2. Nocturno - 7:50; 3. Space Polka - 4:06; 4. Song of Humiliated People - 4:01; 5. Ten Steps in the Dark - 2:24; 6. Run Over Borders - 3:18;
7. Sound Fields - 6:00; 8. Boat of Hope - 4:16; 9. Faces Without Dreams - 11:22; 10. Mikelinica - 3:11.
Zlatko Kaučič: Emigrants
by AAJ Italy Staff
Non nuovo ai dischi in solitudine, il percussionista sloveno Zlatko Kaučič mette in luce in questo lavoro tutta la sua anima libertaria e cosmopolita, omaggiando in spirito un fenomeno che egli conosce bene come l'emigrazione (ha a lungo girato per l'Europa, prima di tornare alla sua terra natale, come narra nell'intervista che ci ha rilasciato) ma ...
