BUCKETHEAD - KALEIDOSCALP
Frankenseuss Laboratories
[4:33]7.4 Mb
Music Box Innards
[4:11]7.2 Mb
The Bronze Bat
[3:45]6.8 Mb
Rack Maitenance
[4:21]6.8 Mb
Pylon Shift
[0:37]0.6 Mb
The Slunk the Gutter and the Candlestick Maker
[2:02]3.5 Mb
Stun Pike and the Jack in the Box Head
[4:35]7.5 Mb
Breakfast Cyborg
[1:41]1.7 Mb
The Last Ride of the Bozomobile
[4:32]6.9 Mb
The Sticker on Hallucinogens
[3:29]5.2 Mb
Citadel
[4:17]7.6 Mb
The Android of Notre Dame
[3:38]5.9 Mb
She Sells Sea Shells by the Slaughterhouse
[11:42]10.5 Mb
Buckethead "Kaleidoscalp" Album Review
Good but too weird, even for him!
i thought this was an interesting outing for bucket, but i just can't stand when he makes those weird noises with those supposed circuit bending sounds. i dont have much to say about it, other than its similar to cuckoo clocks but more noise and not enough shredding or nice slow guitar riffs, which i love by him. overall it was a decent album, can't complain too much, cause i love anything he does mostly. recommended for people with unstable conditions...just kidding, if u love bucket, try it out.
Video Buckethead- The Android of Notre Dame
Buckethead- The Android of Notre Dame, from the album Kaleidoscalp.
MAGMA - SPIRITUAL
Weidorje
[4:32]7.3 Mb
Dondai
[8:00]11.2 Mb
Spiritual
[3:14]5 Mb
Hhai
[8:50]12.9 Mb
Zombies
[4:17]6.8 Mb
Nono
[6:24]9.8 Mb
Kobah
[6:24]9.8 Mb
The Last 7 Minutes
[7:32]11.1 Mb
Lihns
[4:55]7.4 Mb
Maahnt
[5:30]8.5 Mb
Udu Wudu
[4:14]6.9 Mb
Mekanik Zain
[18:14]27.8 Mb
Magma "Spiritual" Album Review
Magma - 'Spiritual' (Recall) 2-CD import
As for this 2-CD compilation being a bootleg, are you sure? I've seen numerous like releases of other long-running bands on the Recall label. Maybe they came across one of those 'slippery contract' deals that I've heard about before. Either way, the price of this 2-CD by French progsters Magma was JUST too good for me to pass up. I've been forewarned to avoid this band completely. But, I can think for myself and I,personally thought this 12-track anthology was decent. Not sure if I'll seek anymore of Magma's repertoire or not. Tunes here I thought were decent enough for me to keep this title around for awhile were "Weirdorje", the jamming "Hhai", the somewhat artsy-fartsy "Last 7 Minutes" and the 18-minute "Mekanik Zain". Best way I could accurately describe Magma's sound is part Avant Garde and part experimental progressive. How about like a rich man's Gong? Does that make much sense? Funny thing about Magma, is I remember several years ago when they toured the states, while co-headlining for Gong (mind you)and I spoke to several fans that saw that year's Prog Fest, but I couldn't find ONE person who liked Magma. Think that Porcupine Tree might've been out on that same tour.
NO NECK BLUES BAND AND EMBRYO - EMBRYONNCK
Wieder Das Erste Mal
[9:27]15.2 Mb
Five Grams of the Widow
[2:39]4 Mb
After Marjas Cats
[5:03]8 Mb
Frank Cologne
[1:42]2.3 Mb
Die Farbe Aus Dem All
[5:31]8.5 Mb
Zweiter Sommer
[6:53]10.8 Mb
Das Erste Mal
[13:20]20.5 Mb
No Neck Blues Band and Embryo "Embryonnck" Album Review
Embryonnck - 'No Neck Blues Band And Embryo' (Staubgold)
Don't let this CD's title confuse you, this is still very much Embryo. Simply the band's main stay Christain Burchard teaming up with New York's improv masters the No Neck Blues Band. The result is very original sounding to say the least. Probably best described as 'ethnic experimental'. Tracks that I enjoyed the absolute most were the tribal opener "Wieder das erste Mal", the odd yet semi-Avant Garde sounding "After Marja's Cats" {a bit out there}, the inventive and yet eerie "Die Farbe aus dem All", "Zweiter Sommer" and the laid back thirteen-minute "Erste Mal" {gets spaced out during the song's second half}. Recommended for it's weirdness alone.
MATTHEW SHIPP - ONE
Arc
[3:07]4.6 Mb
Patmos
[3:37]4.9 Mb
Gamma Ray
[4:26]6.6 Mb
Milky Way
[3:24]4.5 Mb
Blue in Orion
[3:31]4.5 Mb
Electro Magnetism
[2:42]3.8 Mb
The Encounter
[4:04]5.6 Mb
The Rose is A Rose
[2:07]2.8 Mb
Ieou
[3:20]4.6 Mb
Abyss Code
[2:29]3.5 Mb
Zero
[3:22]4.6 Mb
Module
[4:12]5.8 Mb
Matthew Shipp "One" Album Review
Solo Shipp!
At the 1998 Jazz awards, a fight broke out between Jazz Journalists Association president Howard Mandel and critic Stanley Crouch. Of all people, seemingly mild-mannered Matthew Shipp stepped in and called Crouch an "Uncle Tom" and a "loser" before security separated the two. As uncharacteristic as this might seem, Matthew Shipp is full of these types of personal and musical surprises -- and judging from One, he's just getting warmed up.
Shipp isn't the sort of artist who typically feels caged -- unless you add a "John" to the beginning of that phrase. Sans effects, electronics or collaborators, he opts for stark acoustic piano performances on One's twelve pieces. The results channel the souls of a variety of infamous performers and piano works from the past hundred years. For "Gamma Ray", Shipp plunks down his staccato theme and "wrong" notes with a Monk-style clumsy-genius attack, and riffs in-between with Oscar Peterson's speed and grace. In "The Encounter", he wanders around a murky pedal-down mire of pan-diatonics, nodding to Henry Cowell and George Winston, while "IEOU" marches full steam ahead in the lower register with all of Cecil Taylor's breakneck explosiveness. Closer "Module" opens with diatonic planing figures, echoing Chick Corea -- or perhaps Debussy. After the tense, rumbling climactic release, he fades out with the same gesture, then leaves the keyboard as abruptly as he arrived.
Though One wanders freely across the musical map, Shipp deliberately limits his palette, adding the descriptive "lovely" and the highly cherished "listenable" alongside "experimental". Extended techniques like tossing bouncing balls inside the sound board and fitting piano hammers with Malaysian coral make for intriguing sonic diversions, Shipp distinguishes himself here by only exploring only the avenues afforded by the piano's 88 keys -- and finding spectacular harmonic, contrapuntal and polyrhythmic textures within them. Surprisingly, there are very few spots where forty minutes of musical same-ness drags. Shipp keeps repetition to a minimum, emphasizing dynamic ebb and flow and forward motion while still expressing his "poetic" imagination.
One is an impressive addition to Shipp's canon. It belongs at the very top of his resume, alongside The Sorcerer Sessions, his work with DJ Spooky (Optometry) and his part-time gig as the Jazz Awards' Brawler in Residence.
Video Matthew Shipp on Culture Catch!
Jazz Artist Matthew Shipp discusses the world of jazz and his work with Dusty from www.CultureCatch.com. Then he plays one of his amazing songs from Matmos.
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