ONOFFON: Your Mind

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Your Mind

© 1999 ONOFFON Productions (635223192227)

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Totally diverse progressive jazz rock blues

tracks

1 Your Mind
2 Shadowglass
3 Alley Want
4 Mardi Gras
5 Ocean's Cry
6 Bebe's Song
7 For Hell Sake's
8 Opus
9 You Know I Can't
10 Wet Legs
11 Credits

notes

Following their amazing debut, 'Surrender Now' - this second album from ONOFFON really helps to define how diverse these guys are.

Starting with the intense title track, 'Your Mind', immediately followed by the serene, mystical instrumental, 'Shadowglass', this CD takes you on eleven different musical journeys.

Highlighted by excellent musicianship displayed by the usual trio of Don Lake, Von Babasin and Dave Goode, as well as their supporting musicians, the group also shows it's production qualifications.

Each song is a feast for the ears, especially through a good set of headphones. With the popularity of soundtrack CDs and compilation CDs rising every day, people are showing they like diversity in their music - why not get that diversity from the same group?

Check out ONOFFON, you might be surprised by what you hear.

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  • The needle in the haystack .....
    author: Steve Hall

    Well, I'll be honest, finding really great music these days in the indie or the mainstream realms is like finding a needle in a haystack. Well, I just pricked my finger when I found 'Your Mind'. This album has everything I want from a progressive band. There's no compromise or shortfall anywhere: jazz, rock, funk, blues, ambient, melodies, harmonies, virtuosity, imagination, rhythmic feel, lyrical invention, production, mystique, down to earthness, humour, sleeve notes, photos, a plastic tray and a hole in the middle of the disc. Oh yeah, and it has RIFFS! Remember them? Little tunes on the bass and guitar that fit under the melody! Not easy to come up with, but there are great ones all over the place here. This album is right at the top of my collection with Steely Dan, Miles Davis and Tom Waits. More albums, Onoffon, please ....

  • author: Don Donofrio

    ONOFFON Your Mind Reviewed by Don Donofrio, Don's Music Views "The California band ONOFFON is back with their second release "Your Mind". The band has become one of my favorites for several reasons. First, they're all great musicians and even their worst critic has to give them that. Second, they're one of the most adventurous risk-takers out there. As this disc shows, an ONOFFON release is a wondrous journey from the absurd to the absolutely exquisite. The band consists of Don Lake (guitar, vocals), Von Babasin (some mean bass, vocals), and Dave Goode (drums, vocals). Their sound is supplemented nicely once again by Glen Garrett, who brings his sax and flute to the mix, and some background vocals from Stacey Baltes and Carole Couture-Olivieri. It's hard to describe this band's sound because nothing is off-limits to them and they cover a lot of ground. The best description would probably be to call it progressive jazz but even that doesn't do it justice. They really have to be heard to be understood and you can't say that about very many bands today. Let's just say that they're not only interesting, ground-breaking, and original, but they're also visionaries. To put it another way, no one is doing what these guys are doing and what they're doing is thoroughly enjoyable. "Your Mind" contains 11 tracks. 3 of them are instrumentals and for my money the band's greatest strengths are their individual instrumental talents. "Opus" is just an incredible piece that begins with some soft acoustic guitar and just slowly develops into an envelope of guitar sounds from Don Lake. "Shadowglass" is another masterpiece that uses guest musician Glen Garrett's flute to incredible lengths while still managing to showcase the 3 full-time band members as well. "Ocean's Cry" is the band's funky sounding track and features some mean bass from Von Babasin. To close out the disc, the band uses the albums credits as the lyrics for the aptly titled "Credits". This has to be one of the most creative moments I've heard in a long time and the weirdest thing is that it works. Like I said earlier, ONOFFON really has to be heard to be understood. This disc is an early runner for the best of 1999 list--and take my word for it--no review is really going to do it justice." This review is posted at: http://members.tripod.com/~djd3/onoffon-2.html

  • author: Kevin Kreiner

    ONOFFON Your Mind Reviewed by Kevin Kreiner, mp3critic.com Staff Writer "The masters of eclectic are at it again. To follow up "Surrender Now," their debut album, ONOFFON have come up with another short hour of cosmic grooves. Beginning with lyrics like "I'm the string bender, and I'm the mind sender" and ending with a sung medley of the album's credits, "Your Mind" is just what it says on the cover. Think of the title track, which starts off with string special effects that summon up funk riffs in the back half of the song, as a signpost that reads "introspection of art rock meets the hip swinging sounds of jazz at the funk intersection straight ahead." Don't worry about packing, they've got it all here for you. As compared to their self titled debut album, this sophomore disc from the Los Angeles based trio of Don Lake, Von Babasin and Dave Goode is less varied, but musically even tighter than the original. There's still a lot of fun here, they've even thrown in some old fashioned swing in "Bebe's Song" for anyone who's been living in a cave for the last five years. Tracks like "Mardi Gras" keep you moving the way jazz ought to, with a single repeating motif woven through a musical narrative that sounds every bit as New Orleans as the title suggests. Of course, it wouldn't be an ONOFFON record without a few sudden changes, and the heavy guitar downbeats that open "Ocean's Cry" bring you from New Orleans to the rocky coasts of rock and then back to smooth sailing in one quick go. It's fun like playing football is, you get knocked on your ass and love every minute of it. Not to worry, guest Glen Garret will pick you up with his flute in the absolutely intriguing "Shadowglass." Look, they even turn the credits into a song, kind of like what They Might Be Giants did all the way back on Flood. I liked it then and I like it now. But the real reason to buy this record, as opposed to just taping it, is the liner notes. Each song's title is presented under a painting, the description of which will stand for the song as well. "Shadowglass," for instance, features a black and white distorted image of a woman, seen from the back, her head lost in shadows. The caption says, "A fluid seduction of signature, rhythm, and syncopation - a haunting vision in lyric melody and non-discript (sic) imagery." I couldn't have said it any better." Posted at MP3critic.com: http://www.mp3critic.com/review.asp?pm=50

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