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Reptet: Do This!

Read "Do This!" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


I looked up “reptet" in the dictionary. It's not there. The words skip from “reprove" to “reptile"... no “reptet" listed. Maybe I don't have a big enough dictionary, or maybe the Seattle-based sextet made it up. And why not? The music on the group's second CD is all about spontaneity and improvisation, unfettered, exuberant energy and ...

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Unwaxed

Label: Monktail Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Blatch; Merry X-mas Mom; Stephen's Call to Brooklyn; Floss; Bruxism; Bing-dom Dom-dom; Stephen's Call to Santiago; Whitey on Mars; AD FINEM

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Reptet

Label: Monktail Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: After Before, The Gears, Open to Morning, Inspired Strut, Already Afternoon, A Bit Nervous, The Sun is Beautiful, Resigned to Evening, Distant Distorted you, Stroll, Introspection, Mother Night.

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Non Grata

Label: Monktail Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Live Free or Die; Anti-Foaming Agent; Air Room; Whisper Skin; Cantometrics to Cotton; Bone Loss

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Floss: Unwaxed

Read "Unwaxed" reviewed by John Kelman


For an artist who never achieved the widespread acclaim of, say, John Coltrane or Ornette Coleman, saxophonist Albert Ayler has had a surprisingly long-lasting effect on modern free jazz. Coming up as he did not through the bebop ranks, but from R&B, also lends credibility to more contemporary free artists coming to the genre through other ...

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Reptet: Reptet

Read "Reptet" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone


Reptet is a Seattle-based quartet that was dates back to 1999, when drummer John Ewing began to assemble its other members, a process that continued over the course of the next two years. The group prides itself upon their eclectic repertoire, featuring compositions by outside musicians such as Horace Tapscott and Misha Mengelberg. Despite ...

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Monktail Creative Music Concern: Non Grata

Read "Non Grata" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Creative music is a much bandied-about term. Creativity lies in the imagination of its creators. The Monktail Creative Music Concern comes out of Seattle with enough steam in its collective mind to gratify both in the depth of its intensity and the expanse of its musical ambition. The concern has around 20 musicians floating in its ...


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