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Partisans: By Proxy

by Chris May
June 29, 2009

London band Partisans has been making the hair stand up on the back of audiences' necks with its supercharged collision of jazz and rock since 1996. By Proxy is the band's fourth album following the acclaimed Max (Babel, 2005), which was the most effective recreation of Partisans' ferocious live sound in the recording studio up to ...

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Max

By Partisans

Label: Babel Label
Released: 2005
Track listing: Max; Z Car; Partisans #2; The Eskaton; The Lacemakers; Last Chance; Some Of Those; John, I'm Only Dancing; Quarterlight; Wise Child.

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Partisans: Max

by Bev Stapleton
September 15, 2005

Partisans are open in their admiration for jazz-rock/fusion. Yet the UK group's third album, Max, moves far beyond revivalism. It's dedicated to Max Roach, and the opening self-penned title track is embedded within Charlie Parker's “Klact-oveeseds-tene," drawing immediate attention to influences well beyond the 1970s. In fact, the most impressive feature of the band is its ...

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Partisans: Max

by Chris May
May 25, 2005

Longer established than their Babel label mates and fellow London radicals Acoustic Ladyland and Polar Bear--and several light years closer to the straight-ahead tradition than either--in energy and attitude Phil Robson's and Julian Siegel's Partisans are very much on the same side of the barricades. Here, in their first album since '00's Sourpuss, they cook up ...

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