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Dual Pleasure 2

By Ken Vandermark

Label: Smalltown Supersound
Released: 2005
Track listing: Disc 1: Train Hits The Station; Finish Wood; Look Left; Never Leave Well Enough Alone; Nice & Dry; Short Terminal; Non Chilled; Living Kills; There Is Nothing Left To Break. Disc 2: Stray Dog; Double Weight; As It Goes.

Album

Ideas

By Ken Vandermark

Label: Dreamusic
Released: 2005

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Article: Interview

Ken Vandermark: That Was Now

Read "Ken Vandermark: That Was Now" reviewed by Rex  Butters

by Rex Butters

For almost a decade, the Vandermark 5 has been the main outlet for the diabolically driven and creative Ken Vandermark. Spreading his involvement across at least ten active and demanding musical enterprises, Vandermark's main outlet still remains the V5. This year for the third time in its history the quintet loses a founding member, this time ...

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Article: Album Review

Ken Vandermark/Paal Nilssen-Love: Dual Pleasure 2

Read "Dual Pleasure 2" reviewed by Rex  Butters

by Rex Butters

Ken Vandermark and Paal Nilssen-Love return for another series of take-no-prisoner duets on Dual Pleasure 2, a sequel to their pairing last year. This two-disc set presents a collection of studio performances and a concert appearance. The studio work presents nine relatively short pieces that catalogue a wide range of mood and color. The live disc ...

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Furniture Music

By Ken Vandermark

Label: Okka Disk
Released: 2004
Track listing: Resistance/ Horizontal Weight/ So Is This/ Lines/ Immediate Action/ Panels/ Color Fields To Darkness/ Would a Proud Man Rather Break Than Bend/ Beck and Fall/ Melodica/ Indeterminate Action/ Leaves/ br

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Ken Vandermark: Radiale, Gambit, and Elements of Style, Exercises in Surprise

Read "Ken Vandermark: Radiale, Gambit, and Elements of Style, Exercises in Surprise" reviewed by Jeff Stockton

by Jeff Stockton

Ken Vandermark continues to issue recordings at a wildly prolific rate, yet for all the similarities, each one of his projects offers something different. And while charting the genealogy of his collaborative relationships can be like figuring out who is brother to whom on a soap opera, the crucial member of the two trios under consideration ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Vandermark x2

Read "Vandermark x2" reviewed by Derek Taylor

by Derek Taylor

Surf by Ken Vandermark's website and you'll find evidence of a cottage industry. The industrious Chicagoan continues a relentless pace of touring and recording, releasing a generous handful of discs with each passing year. What's equally impressive about his activities is the number of people on board behind his grand designs. Myriad labels including Okkadisk , ...

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Article: Interview

A Fireside Chat with The Vandermark 5

Read "A Fireside Chat with The Vandermark 5" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Although The Vandermark 5 bears his name, Ken Vandermark is practical enough to realize V5's success should be credited to members Jeb Bishop, Tim Daisy, Kent Kessler, and Dave Rempis. For it is their commitment and loyalty that allows V5 to be a seasoned quintet unlike any other in modern music. V5's popularity obscures musical genres, ...

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Article: Album Review

Ken Vandermark: Furniture Music

Read "Furniture Music" reviewed by Derek Taylor

by Derek Taylor

The title of Ken Vandermark’s new (and first) solo album connotes a certain sort of familiarity through its imbedded analogy: the conception of music as something functional and reassuring that can become a regular part of one’s personal landscape. Rest assured though, this isn’t your father’s favorite easy chair, or his most treasured Bing Crosby record ...

Album

Furniture Music

By Ken Vandermark

Label: Dreamusic
Released: 2003


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