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Singular Pleasures: Percussion Music For Listening And Sampling

By Gino Robair

Label: Rastascan Records
Released: 1998

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Rova: Morphological Echo

by Robert Spencer
January 1, 1998

Morphological Echo, the Rova saxophone quartet's twentieth-anniversary release consists of a 1989 New Year's Eve recording and one track from 1992. The 1989 piece is the bravura “Maintaining the Web Under Less Than Obvious Circumstances," a six-part meta-suite which takes up 32 of this disc's 47 minutes. Rova's strengths are deployed here to dazzling effect: top-notch ...

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Walter Shed 5tet: Blue Plate Tectonics

by Robert Spencer
January 1, 1998

Pittsburgh's Water Shed 5tet is your standard sax-guitar-cello-bass-drums unit. Their music is a mélange adultère de tout, not only because of the original lineup, but because the players are given to sudden and unexpected moves like electric guitarist Daryl Fleming's quote of “Dixie" in the approach to a Yes-flavored crescendo in “Braque." Blue Plate Tectonics, their ...

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