author: LasseM
Psychopathic blues, taking every chans to show that it's guilty - and getting better and better for each time i play it .
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I love this CD
author: Aaron Alexander
I can't stop listening to this CD.
I love the playing, the compositions, and especially the sounds of the instruments. The guitar playing is brilliant as expected, the rapport between the players is very strong, especially the guitarist & clarinetist. The drummer plays with a deep groove and a wide command of textures.
The whole CD has the kind of fun grooviness that pulls you in easily, before you realize how deep it is. By then it's too late, you're hooked.
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author: CD Baby
With a line-up of players with credentials from John Zorn to Nels Cline to Mr. Bungle, you can be assured that you're in for some boundary-stretching, upside down cleverness backed by more than a desire to push the envelope. In a style such as avant garde jazz, where everyone and his dog is releasing an album of chaotic, manic splatterings of this and that, it's rare to find a disc with just as much substance, education, expertise and intelligence as innovation and clever disarray. It seems to affirm the theory that those who know the rules before breaking them come out with better results than those with no real relationship to those rules. "Typical Orchestra" is not simply harmony and melody flung against a wall and abused by extended techniques. Daring to be melodic, lyrical, and even sensitive, there is some definite, palpable craft, care and intent going on here, which makes this the most successful contemporary jazz album in our warehouse to date.
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