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With just 4 long tracks in sixty-three minutes, this would be the perfect album to stand alongside classics such as Xaal, Triple Zero or the home of Ohm and similar, for here is a band that’s music will surely blow you clean away! Fundamentally, they are a core trio comprising of keyboards, vocals, bass, drums and percussion, with a couple of guests on a couple of tracks. The whole thing has the feel of 70’s Magma to a tee, only most of it is instrumental and, bizarrely enough, some of it is even more far-out! Musically they all bask in the glories that the music affords, with each member coming out proud, although there is rarely any ‘solo’ space. The electric bass work throughout is nothing short of phenomenal as it scorches over the ruins of a mighty musical empire, while the massed ranks of percussion provide one hell of a strong backing. The keyboards perform almost a subsidiary role at times, acting more like a textural, melodic back-up rather than being out in front, but this is one band that knows exactly where its at and how they’re going to get there. There’s a shared musical ground with the likes of modern bands such as Nebelnest, while other sections remind you of Hugh Hooper’s more contemporary works. It’s thought-provoking, absorbing and excellently constructed music, and with all its complexities, layers, arrangements, developments and more, this is (and this is a positive comment) an album that feels like you’ve listened to it all by half way through the 2^nd track, in that they seem to fit more ideas into a couple of tracks than most similar bands strive to achieve over several albums. A real winner!

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The brand-new Circle album is their debut ‘live’ performance on CD. The set is played and produced brilliantly and sounds just perfect. For nearly an hour 9 tracks are delivered in an almost unbroken fashion as a base line of guitars, synths, keyboards, bass, drums and some vocals generate powerful cataclysmic music that can also be almost trance-like at times. For close on an hour, the band take you on a trip through the musical areas inhabited by bands and genres ranging from classic 70’s Can and Krautrock, through to Magma, Godpseed, Hawkwind and much, much more besides. Along the way the instruments can soar high and the meter needles hit red, as the mighty Circle machine’s working parts warm-up and band hit the turbo button to unleash huge sonic panoramas of monumental proportions. This is music with real power – A truly awesome sound, that I can imagine having a much wider appeal than some might reckon.

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For the first of two amazing releases by Grobschnitt we are to open another page in the trilogy of Andy G storybook reviews. Albums that are as exceptional as this (and it’s partner: ‘Volume 2’) require something just a little bit different than your average informative write-up to describe the treasures within, but before you click that ‘Extra Information’ link, here is a brief outline of what this volume is all about. ‘Volume 1’ is a double disc set - It lasts a total of 139 minutes and features 7 tracks, 3 of which are different versions of the classic track ‘Solar Music’ epic. Although each version is very long, your CD player can access the individual movements separately if you so desire.

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‘Volume 2’ is longer than # 1, clocking in at 148 minutes and this one has only 4 tracks. As with the first volume, this double disc set features another three different versions of the lengthy ‘Solar Music’ epic, and although this set is a fair bit longer, there is only one other track. As with ‘Vol.1’, the individual movements can be accessed by your player if you so desire. As a footnote to these two releases, two more plotted histories of ‘Solar Music’ are planned for release later in 2002 – One will arrive in late summer and the other in the autumn, and both of these are to be double disc sets too!  Please refer to the ‘Extra Information’ link on the ‘History Of Solar Music-Volume 1’ for the rest of the story on these magnificent albums.

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A big seller here, simply due to the fact that a certain BBC radio station started playing tracks from this unique and unusual CD on a contemporary music programme, and their listeners have been coming to us in droves for their copies ever since! The composer is a multi-instrumentalist – something like a Russian version of Mike Oldfield, but his music is much wider based, genre-wise, and can be pretty unusual at times to say the least. Ranging from being almost classically operatic to jazzy and experimental in places, it can sound a little strange or even mildly discordant at times, but there’s a charm existing within its musical layers that many seem to find totally engaging. The album runs for almost forty-seven minutes and each of its 6 respective movements are reasonably melodic with a delicate, almost fragile feel to them at times. Hi-register female vocals feature alongside, electric guitars, keyboards, cellos, flutes, saxophones, trumpets, percussion and a host of other orchestral instruments, and together they have a curiously addictive effect on the brain. People will react to its character in different ways; in other words, you’ll either love it or hate it. Many will want to repeat the experience many times over, while others might well want to throw it in the bin after their first listen, but one thing is for sure – no one can argue with the fact that the music on this album is totally unique and unlike anything you will have ever encountered on a CD before.v

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The world of French fusion never stands still and just as you might have entertained the thought that even the French scene had done it all, along comes a guy playing music in the realms of One Shot, Art Zoyd, etc., with the old Zeuhl influences shining through strongly. The most remarkable thing is all the instruments (electric guitar, piano, electric bass & drums) are all played by Thollot, but even more remarkable is just how cohesive it all sounds – Yes, this fiery brand of instrumental fusion works a treat. With plenty of Magma-influenced (Top/Paganotti-eras particularly) electric bass work and some scorching guitar sounds, the real difference is made by the use of piano as a co-lead instrument, both in a melodic, and somewhat angular manner, so that it blends beautifully with the guitar, bass and drums, to create a form of music that is original and unique sounding, yet at the same time its 7 tracks of supercharged fusion as only the French can play it.

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Ah, that difficult tenth album syndrome. Difficult to review that is. I mean, where do you start with an album like this if you’ve only got a few lines to convey its glories and majestic triumphs. First, you tell everyone it has 13 tracks that total fifty-one minutes, and that musically, it’s a kind of ensemble chamber fusion music with a definite touch of the Zeuhl about it, particularly with two bassists in the band. Then you mention the opening track sounds like a mind-melt of Samla Mamma Mannas and Weidorje, with a good atmosphere nevertheless. As you travel further into the crevices of the album, you’ll find a myriad musical universes and textures abounding, where oboe, English Horn, cello, bassooon, flute, piccolo, drums, percussion, keyboards, harmonium, clarinet, trumpet, acoutic guitar, marimba, glockenspiel, accordion (briefly) and the aforementioned bassists all intermingle in various conglomerations. Together they produce a flowing, sometimes dark and certainly wide-ranging assortment of tracks that are more melodic than you might expect. Largely free of any musical or difficult listening excesses, this is a good way to come of age – roll on number eleven.

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New seventy-six minute digi-pak set of 14 all-exclusive tracks on a pretty adventurous, mostly instrumental album, that covers a range of styles with what might be termed as the contemporary, psychedelic and Krautrock-influenced genres - A world where simply listing the main protagonists lets you know exactly what you are in for. That list includes Amp, Korai Orom, Ohm, In The Labyrinth, Smoking The Century Away, Acid Mothers Temple, Le Forbici Di Manitu, Tombstone Valentine and more.

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Faust gets a remix, or, more specifically, their ‘Ravivando’ album gets the remix treatment, with 13 takes on the tracks from that album over a staggeringly competent and enjoyable seventy-three minutes. The result actually sums up the whole adventurous, creative, fearless approach of the original band had to its music. The remixers are unafraid to destroy, remake, remodel, deconstruct and reshape the source material in order to create a set of instrumentals that are positive masterpieces in their own right, and the whole thing seems to have worked out a thousand times better than the similalry remixed albums of Can and Gong material. Predominantly electronic, the music ranges from the powerfully surging throb of classic Krautrock to some eerie drone-laden landscapes where all sorts of creatures appear and interact. With names involved in the calibre of Dave Ball, Surgeon, Kreidler, Residents, Dead Voices On Air, Daniel Miller, Howie B and more, this is a far, far better album than ever you could imagine. It is well crafted, more cohesive and less noisy than other similar projects - Multi-layered, vari-textured, full-sounding and superbly produced music that comes highly recommended.

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