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Barry Cleveland: Hologramatron
by Mark Redlefsen
Hologramatron is an imaginative progressive rock-oriented release by guitarist Barry Cleveland. Proficient technique commands attention throughout the entire CD, alongside Cleveland's writing, and arranging of the entire set. The songs are rich in sonic texture, and with panoptic social political messages that require a close listen. Cleveland recruited a number of responsive talented players to communicate ...
Soft Machine Legacy: Live Adventures
by Nic Jones
With Hugh Hopper's death in 2009, Soft Machine Legacy lost its last link with the classic Soft Machine lineups that recorded its most potent music. What is here, then, is a band which pledges allegiance to the relatively straightforward fusion period of the band's history. Once that's clarified, however, it's still a fact ...
Soft Machine Legacy: Live Adventures
by Mark Redlefsen
The unique jazz-rock of Soft Machine Legacy moves into a new decade with Live Adventures (Moonjune, 2010), along with yet another new lineup, recorded live shortly after the 2009 passing of bassist Hugh Hopper. No matter how much change in personnel occurs, a very identifiable and distinct sound is maintained all around. The balance in this ...
Dennis Rea: Views from Chicheng Precipice
by Glenn Astarita
Seattle-based guitarist Dennis Rea discloses a 360-degree U-turn, contrasting his work with the hemi-powered progressive rock and jazz fusion bands, Iron Kim Style and Moraine. Rea's Asian-derived fusion--of rock, avant-garde, Asian folk and Western classical concepts--spawns a translucent and rather kaleidoscopic genre-busting sequence of musical events.The album opener “Three Views from Chicheng Precipice (after ...
Dennis Rea: Views from Chicheng Precipice
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il chitarrista americano Dennis Rea, al centro di interessanti progetti come Iron Kim Style e Moraine, mette a nudo la sua anima orientale (è vissuto a lungo in Cina) con questo album direttamente accreditato a suo nome. La musica è dolente e riflessiva, pervasa da uno spirito orientale che aleggia supremo, senza però lasciarsi trascinare nel ...
Tohpati Ethnomission: Save the Planet
by AAJ Italy Staff
Tophati è il chitarrista della band indonesiana simakDIALOG che ha già dato prove di buon valore artistico con il contributo essenziale di un grande esperto di rock progressivo, di jazz-rock e di musica etnica come Leonardo Pavkovic, per conto della sua etichetta Moonjune Records. Questo ottimo album conferma quanto di buono era già emerso in un ...
Doubt: Never Pet a Burning Dog
by AAJ Italy Staff
La cosa più impressionante di questo trio è il volume di suono che riescono ottenere, scatenando una ordalia di vibrazioni che ci travolgono e ci spazzano via come un tornado tropicale. Forse i tre protagonisti hanno dimenticato di 'non svegliar il can che brucia' e hanno inevitabilmente innescato uno tsunami impressionante che ci ricorda la sensazione ...
Iron Kim Style: Iron Kim Style
by Chris M. Slawecki
Iron Kim Style is quite humorous but serious too--The eponymous debut of an improvisational jazz-rock quintet that is: Built around two guitars, with no keyboards, plus trumpet and bass clarinet as the other solo voices; named for both the North Korean dictator and the martial arts style instructed by Grandmaster “Iron" Kim; and, creative home for ...
Iron Kim Style: Iron Kim Style
by AAJ Italy Staff
Mettete assieme la lucida follia del chitarrista Dennis Rea e la pazzia mediterranea/atlantica dello straordinario producer Leonardo Pavkovic, scuotete bene, aggiungete, tanto per gradire, un dittatore coreano in visita pastorale e avrete uno dei migliori dischi dell'anno. E lo diciamo in anticipo, visto che l'anno è ancora lungo. Ma difficilmente saremo smentiti. Perché l'energia di questo ...
Iron Kim Style: Iron Kim Style
by Nic Jones
It could be argued that the music Miles Davis was cutting about forty years ago still casts a shadow. Iron Kim Style stands in its shade, and for all of the original, offbeat stuff going on it's hard to shake the impression. According to the slipcase, all the music was freely improvised, which might be a ...
