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JEFFREY FISHER/Ocean of Consciousness: In which we find a new use of new age music, Fisher uses it as a basis to try to make sense of the war that’s tearing the kids apart internally as they fight and try to cope. Calling back to the Sanskrit Bhagavad-Gita texts that recall similar situations, he sets to music the feelings and textures that go with war. Since this is a two disc set, he uses to second disc to semi-further the agenda but uses it as a back drop to his relationship with nature. Very much an important set of music for thinkers, you can bet this isn’t easy music and it will take you places. You can almost picture Oprah getting up on her soapbox and getting behind the impact of this set. Very much material existing on a higher plane, in several ways.
8888 (Healing Music of the South West)
KARI ON PRODUCTIONS
MICHAELA RABITSCH-ROBERT PAWLIK QUARTET/Moods: What is it about Europe that turns out woman trumpet players that have a great jazz sense? The ones that know how to hit it really know how to hit and Rabitsch is one of the ones in the winner’s circle. This date has a swinging club feel where lite jazz shows some spunk and goes that extra mile for you. Sounding very much like the kind of crew you get off on discovering at some urban center river walk summer festival, this is a great example of the fun kind of jazz that makes people that think they didn’t like jazz get turned on. From Austria they come and this trumpet/guitar led crew just might conquer the world with their sound. Well worth getting to know, the sooner the better.
727 (Extraplatte)
LORI HEHR PUBLIC RELATIONS
FISH/13th Star: Does Fish prove that 50 is the new 30? The former lead vocalist for Marillion rocks out at the half century mark with a totally new set that isn’t geared for mall parking lots as he uses it as a launch pad for his first US tour in ten years. Certainly with a mature edge, this is real rock that takes you back to your youth (particularly if it was in the 80s) and will get you banging your head as much as your body will allow. With enough fire to bring youngsters into the tent if they can tear themselves away from GTA4, you have to give this cat serious props for really rocking as opposed to just going through the motions and coming out with new stuff no one will want to hear. If you were ever a fan, you owe it to yourself to check it out.
1402207 (Chocolate Frog)
OZRIC TENTACLES/Sunrise Festival: Once it became clear to the kids that Fairport Convention was your father’s jam band, even if jam band’s weren’t quite on the radar at the time, OTs took to the air. Now, after 25 years of having a great time in the underground, they celebrate their 25th year as the premiere English version of what a jam band is. With a deluxe cd/dvd package, they herald their grooves, jams and head-trip’s on the corner of where hippy meets rave. As much a rite of passage as an experience, this is a fun way to mark the milestone.
953 (Snapper)
NO-MAN/Schoolyard Ghosts: In which we find the English hard at work in re-inverting prog rock as the guys form Porcupine Tree hook up with cats from King Crimson, pals of Dave Stewart and some guys from American Music Club. As can be expected, the results are a high octane genre buster of a date that malcontent college kids will be sure they invented and discovered. You can bet your cookies this post-rock head trip will be the college rock sound to beat this coming fall semester.
103 (Kscope)
Volume 31/Number 214
June 1, 2008
MIDWEST RECORD
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Lake Zurich, IL., 60047
CHRIS SPECTOR, Editor and Publisher
©2008 Midwest Record
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