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[Steve F.]

City of Glass is awesome. My great Uncle Greg Bemko plays cello on it. He is also on Zappa's Lumpy Gravy (credited as Harold G. Bemko) and Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle.

What a great and cool thing to know about your family!!!

[chalkpie]

City of Glass is awesome. My great Uncle Greg Bemko plays cello on it. He is also on Zappa's Lumpy Gravy (credited as Harold G. Bemko) and Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle.

Pretty awesome.

[Rick L.]

What a great and cool thing to know about your family!!!

Yeah. Greg flew fighter planes in WW2 as well. All around bad ass.

The Ukranian Stallion!

[Steve F.]

Yeah.

All around bad ass.

In fighter planes or behind the cello!

[Rick L.]

In fighter planes or behind the cello!

He actually controlled the planes with his cello. Kinda like Herbie Hancock on the cover of Thrust. You definitely didn't want to be on the barrel end of a heavy down bow.

[Scrotum Scissor]

My great Uncle Greg Bemko plays cello on it. He is also on Zappa's Lumpy Gravy (credited as Harold G. Bemko) and Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle.

Wow!!

[GuitarGeek]

It's really Grigsby's homage to composer Bob Graettinger and his complete collection of compositions and / or arrangements recorded in his lifetime entitled "City Of Glass"

Bob is one of the most interesting, crazy, tragic and most mysterious figures in modern composition.

This is well worth reading (PDF download)

I'll have to look into Graettinger's work then. I've had City Of Mirrors on CD for quite a few years now, I'm gonna have to find some time in the next couple days to listen to it again.

[NogbadTheBad]

This weeks offer is a monster, love it!

[Scrotum Scissor]

^ Quite possibly my single fave Acrux. Nothing ever sounded like this, not even within the more obscure realms of math-rock. To have music as "insect-swarm-like" in tonal texture come out as large-sounding and melodic as this is an enormous feat. That 28-minute tour-de-force is a complete monster if I ever heard one; it just goes on and further on, always something new, always something bigger and more surprising and welcome.

[Steve F.]

To have music as "insect-swarm-like" in tonal texture

Great description!

[chalkpie]

$12 180g LP? Ordered.

[thedunno]

This weeks offer is a monster, love it!

Great! Did not know have this one of the yet.

[Zappathustra]

Bought.

[mozo-pg]

It sounds pretty decent.

[Dave (in MA)]

He actually controlled the planes with his cello. Kinda like Herbie Hancock on the cover of Thrust. You definitely didn't want to be on the barrel end of a heavy down bow.

For some reason the flying double bass from Dolphy's Out There comes to mind.

[TCC]

This weeks offer is a monster, love it!

Done and agree with you my Friends !

[TCC]

City of Glass is awesome. My great Uncle Greg Bemko plays cello on it. He is also on Zappa's Lumpy Gravy (credited as Harold G. Bemko) and Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle.

Very nice !!

And thanks for all the messages and talk about Motor Totemist Guild's excellent album !

Cheers,
Tomás.

[TCC]

Done!


This is my second Ahleuchatistas, "What You Will " is a good one too; so, I need some advice with their music my Friends, thanks in advance!


Regards,
Tomás.

[NogbadTheBad]

Just bought, really quite excellent, my favorites by them are Head Full Of Poison & What You Will but all the ones I have are good to great. Saw them at Big Ears a few years ago and they were spellbinding.

[Steve F.]

^ ^ ^ ^ ^

The thing about Ahleuchatistas is that there's basically two versions of the group, each of which are quite distinctive from each other.

The first version who recorded four albums, including "What You Will" and "Even In The Midst..." for Cuneiform :
Very, very dry electric guitar tone - no pedals or effects, and a monster rhythm section.

Sadly there are no good videos of this version of the band, but this will sort of do - they were an incredible thing to see live as this gives a hint of.



There was a short-lived hybrid between the two versions who put out "Of The Body Prone" on Tzadik but the band quickly became a duo of Shane and drummer Ryan.

This group performs long form sets, Shane is using a lot of effects and it is very different from mk. I and kinda almost ritual-ish. A completely different sound and also a great live act. This is who Ian saw at Big Ears:

[TCC]

Thanks Uncle Steve and Ian!

[Scrotum Scissor]

I see Stringy Rugs by Blast is coming up.

For anyone into -genuinely- challenging avant-progressive rock who still haven't checked 'em out, Stringy Rugs was one of those moments of total catharsis back in 1997 on release. Buy or cry.

[Zappathustra]

I see Stringy Rugs by Blast is coming up.

For anyone into -genuinely- challenging avant-progressive rock who still haven't checked 'em out, Stringy Rugs was one of those moments of total catharsis back in 1997 on release. Buy or cry.

I have cried so much lately, that I will have to buy (but please come back to the Czech thread and play with me)

[TCC]

I see Stringy Rugs by Blast is coming up.

For anyone into -genuinely- challenging avant-progressive rock who still haven't checked 'em out, Stringy Rugs was one of those moments of total catharsis back in 1997 on release. Buy or cry.

Done !.
First time here and loving it !


(Great cover BTW!)


Thanks Richard !

[chalkpie]

Tomas - two others called Wire Stitched Ears and A Sophisticated Face are both great too...actually Face my be my fav.

Amazing band!