The Wire (7/03, p.72) - "...Larval manage to pump a fresh energy through the form to become intoxicating and a thrill to hear..."14.94753
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The Wire (p.75) - "It's music that, in keeping with Cuneiform's devotion to jazz rock and other uncategorisable forms, breaks down boundaries. Lot of clever stuff and a leaven of humour..."Down Beat (p.80) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "The quintet's instrumental palette has never before been this expansive, with all of the players doubling and tripling on different instruments, and the scattered solos emerge in a satisfyingly organic fashion..."JazzTimes (p.85) - "Hollenbeck's gift for imaginative, finely woven orchestration couldn't be clearer, whether he's working with five pieces or 16."11.48858
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The Wire (p.70) - "[Keith Tippett's] mixture of rolling ostinati and free phrasing is a key element, while Louis Moholo anchors the rhythms with and errant grace."11.34178
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Down Beat (p.64) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The Micros skip merrily through the century, finding an avant-garde side street branching of from a trad-jazz Main Street, beginning with the modernist boogie-woogie of Wayne Horvitz's 'Night Train Express.'"11.34178
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Down Beat (9/01, p.73) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...The music is as dazzling as liquid mercury..."11.34178
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The Wire (3/00, p.53) - "...An afficionado's must-have....a reminder of the power of Soft machine live at full-throttle..."Down Beat (7/00, p.68) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...An innovative union of jazz and rock...expertly taped in a concert hall performance during the first week of 1970....constructing wave after wave of suspense on extended but cleverly structured originals that flow together as one..."9.249117
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Alternative Press (10/99, p.90) - 5 out of 5 - "...reveals warped fingerings; modal alien blues; hammer-on skirmishes; pick scrapes and fret-board surgeries....this is sonic manna for any egghead interested in the innumerable possibilities of the guitar."The Wire (8/99, pp.48-9) - "...[imposes] a symmetrical order on 20 years of their sometimes unruly shared history."9.249117
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Alternative Press (10/99, p.86) - 3 out of 5 - "...Delivery traipse about that somewhat dated and specifically British jazz/blues/psych crossover terrain delineated...by the likes of Colosseum....FOOLS MEETING is a modestly charming affair overall..."9.249117
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The Wire (1/04, p.65) - "Thinking Plague are exciting and ridiculous in equal measure, as good Prog rock should be."9.249117
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JazzTimes (p.121) - "[F]ull of worthy jams, and it's an intriguing history lesson."9.249117
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Rolling Stone (10/3/02, p.102) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...The juicy weirdness of guitarist Kerry Livgren's melodies and the band's time-signature jumps on these ancient tapes are much more than dust in the wind..."h9.249117
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Alternative Press (3/01, pp.80-1) - 3 out of 5 - "...[They] suggest a slightly more serious and jazzy mid-period Soft Machine....it holds up surprisingly well..."The Wire (1/01, p.68) - "...[They] have that same stultifyingly brainy air that effectively neutered so much Canterbury output....The 1973 demos provide some real fire..."9.249117
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The Wire (1/04, p.55) - "This most recent album ups the fusion ante, being looser, groovier and less academic than earlier offerings....The warmth and directness of this unpretentious album offers simpler pleasures..."9.249117
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The Wire (p.60) - "The sound of the recording is clear, if not atmospheric, and the drums sound great..."JazzTimes (p.96) - "Dean's buzzing, terse saxello and soprano saxophone parts are the primary element here. Hopper and Ratledge give the music its character with brooding, simple vamps from the former and unsettled, churning chords from the latter."9.249117
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The Wire (p.75) - "[T]his 1983 performance has an iconic place in his career...It's a luminous performance..."9.249117
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The Wire (p.47) - "The singular Hopper stamp is firmly imprinted through densely layered fuzz-bass, insistent loops, crafty editing and manipulation of tape speed."9.249117
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Rolling Stone (p.126) - "Ayers' bass, Mike Ratledge's organ and Robert Wyatt's drums explode together in a crude and truly psychedelic magnificence."Mojo (Publisher) (p.117) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Anyone expecting power trio dynamics will be pleasantly disarmed by the beguiling, rudimentary takes on 'Clarence In Wonderland' and 'We Know What You Mean' that commence the set."9.249117
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The Wire (p.62) - "[The highlight] is Lacy's 'Blinks'....His solo is profoundly uplifting, soaring passion and intellect fusing to generate a magical elixir."JazzTimes (p.98) - "[T]he later sides have a nearly elegiac air....Beautiful music..."9.249117
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Alternative Press (p.116) - "Pedal-free performance is the name of the game, as the band explore the limits of their own instruments....Music doesn't get much closer to the edge than this."The Wire (p.51) - "The opening track from EVEN IN THE MIDST, '...Of All This', is a miscellany of themes....There are silky chops, ticking rhythms, hiccups and pauses, and glissando runs that curve as elegantly as the blade of a scimitar."9.249117
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The Wire (p.55) - "[They] make their 27th album together sound and feel like a lost Floyd recording....The title track is a monster with passages propelled by looped synth and some inspired soloing from Gary Houghton..."9.249117
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The Wire (p.59) - "Smith's horn playing is spacious and meditative, befitting his Rastafarian beliefs; it's as if he's creating a real-time dub mix of his own lines."Down Beat (p.77) - 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "A piece named for the quartet's original drummer, Jack DeJohnette, splashes sonic colors, while the opening 'Rosa Parks' builds tension mightily behind Iyer's Rhodes and Jackson's multidimensional drumming."JazzTimes (p.94) - "To say the new lineup is powerful would be a huge understatement. Smith elicits a symphony of sounds from his trumpet....Bassist John Lindberg thumps and plucks so hard that he threatens to pop the woofers."9.249117
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The Wire (p.69) - "[D]ownright enjoyable....It's extremely human music -- their orchestration is imaginative and endlessly inventive -- and rather than gloomy, it's moody and magnificent."Record Collector (magazine) (p.95) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[W]onderful examples of music that set its own rules."9.249117
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