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    Quote Originally Posted by Dharma View Post
    Just finished listening to U Totem - s/n. Wow, haven't heard that one in years. Pretty complex stuff but still there are some rewarding moments, specially on the last two tracks The Judas Goat and Vagabonds Home.
    That is a brilliant album! Can't remember if they only did that one or is there more...?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kcrimso View Post
    That is a brilliant album! Can't remember if they only did that one or is there more...?
    https://www.discogs.com/U-Totem-Stra...elease/1746963

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    How does that compare with the debut album?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kcrimso View Post
    How does that compare with the debut album?
    It's very good, I think I actually prefer it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NogbadTheBad View Post
    It's very good, I think I actually prefer it.
    Wow! I gotta get that one also then. Thanks!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kcrimso View Post
    How does that compare with the debut album?
    Its good, but - I cant compare - haven't heard the first one

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kcrimso View Post
    How does that compare with the debut album?
    Its very very good. The complexity is more embedded in coherent songs. More subtle then thecdebut. For me this album was not as immediate as the first but now I think it is at least as good

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    Judas Goat shreds. (I wonder how this would sound to an outsider.)

    Good thread.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bartellb View Post
    Any fans of Absolute Zero? I've been listening to Crashing Icons. This band is rarely mentioned. Too bad it's their only album.
    *HUGE* fan of Crashing Icons here, and I always championed it - to little avail. I love Aislinn Quinn's voice (she sounds like an adolescent boy singing) and keys, Enrique Jardines' bass playing (that guy held a PhD in his instrument!), and not least the inimitable Pip Pyle who rarely sounded better than right here. What really astounds me about this recording is the fierce mastery of edge between looseness and density, coupled with a sense of obtuse force which just endures and prevails without disturbing the detail and discipline needed to execute a web of arrangements as challenging as these. I listened anew just a couple of weeks back, and the album has lost none of its initial freshness whatsoever. Halfway between Susanne Lewis-era Thinking Plague and Zorn's Painkiller; more folks should get to hear it.

    Insanely sad to note how both P. Pyle and E. Jardines are long gone.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor View Post
    *HUGE* fan of Crashing Icons here, and I always championed it - to little avail. I love Aislinn Quinn's voice (she sounds like an adolescent boy singing) and keys, Enrique Jardines' bass playing (that guy held a PhD in his instrument!), and not least the inimitable Pip Pyle who rarely sounded better than right here. What really astounds me about this recording is the fierce mastery of edge between looseness and density, coupled with a sense of obtuse force which just endures and prevails without disturbing the detail and discipline needed to execute a web of arrangements as challenging as these. I listened anew just a couple of weeks back, and the album has lost none of its initial freshness whatsoever. Halfway between Susanne Lewis-era Thinking Plague and Zorn's Painkiller; more folks should get to hear it.
    Sounds very interesting and I love Pip Pyle's drumming = album ordered.
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    Hello Gang!

    .Nicotina es Primavera.:
    Great ensamble from Buenos Aires, Argentina; today, I listened to their second album for 2018 for the first time:
    “Perder Planetas”, a great mix of instrumental chamber music, jazz, RIO & avant prog for example ... recommended!.

    https://nicotinaesprimavera.bandcamp.com

    Also, I relistened their first one for 2016: “Animal Cerámico” ... I didn’t remember how good it is: mix of jazz, experimental rock and contemporary classic.



    Nicotina es Primavera is a side project of Camilo Ángeles, flutist of the RIO band Sales de Baño.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kcrimso View Post
    Wow! I gotta get that one also then.
    In that case you'll also need the Motor Totemist Guild's City of Mirrors, which further elaborates on the upmost densities of such U Totem masterworks as "Ginger Tea" but with a bigger ensemble adjustment. "Scarfnet" and "Narcotic Lollipop" sort among the most impressive achievements I heard by James Grigsby.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor View Post
    In that case you'll also need the Motor Totemist Guild's City of Mirrors, which further elaborates on the upmost densities of such U Totem masterworks as "Ginger Tea" but with a bigger ensemble adjustment. "Scarfnet" and "Narcotic Lollipop" sort among the most impressive achievements I heard by James Grigsby.
    Just listening U Totem's Strange Attractors from Cuneiform's Bandcamp page. It sound really promising. Motor Totemis Guild has been few years on my radar but I haven't yet heard a single note of their music. That will change!
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    Motor Totemist Guild - City Of Mirrors is highly recommended
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    Quote Originally Posted by TCC View Post
    Hello Gang!

    .Nicotina es Primavera.:
    Great ensamble from Buenos Aires, Argentina; today, I listened to their second album for 2018 for the first time:
    “Perder Planetas”, a great mix of instrumental chamber music, jazz, RIO & avant prog for example ... recommended!.

    https://nicotinaesprimavera.bandcamp.com

    Also, I relistened their first one for 2016: “Animal Cerámico” ... I didn’t remember how good it is: mix of jazz, experimental rock and contemporary classic.



    Nicotina es Primavera is a side project of Camilo Ángeles, flutist of the RIO band Sales de Baño.

    Regards!.
    Nice! Now where's that thread for contrapunctal music?

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    Quote Originally Posted by NogbadTheBad View Post
    Motor Totemist Guild - City Of Mirrors is highly recommended
    Yes, I concur.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor View Post
    *HUGE* fan of Crashing Icons here, and I always championed it - to little avail. I love Aislinn Quinn's voice (she sounds like an adolescent boy singing) and keys, Enrique Jardines' bass playing (that guy held a PhD in his instrument!), and not least the inimitable Pip Pyle who rarely sounded better than right here. What really astounds me about this recording is the fierce mastery of edge between looseness and density, coupled with a sense of obtuse force which just endures and prevails without disturbing the detail and discipline needed to execute a web of arrangements as challenging as these. I listened anew just a couple of weeks back, and the album has lost none of its initial freshness whatsoever. Halfway between Susanne Lewis-era Thinking Plague and Zorn's Painkiller; more folks should get to hear it.
    Uhh... Wow. Never even heard of this one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Udi Koomran View Post
    Ahvak ?
    I listened to that a few weeks ago, it's been a while. Still sounds great, amazing attention to detail in these pieces. Always hear new shit everytime.

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    amazing attention to detail in these pieces. Always hear new shit everytime.
    This is the case with both Ahvak and the (somewhat) related Sympozion. Astounding albums each of them. I listened to Kundabuffer just a few weeks back, and that recording is literally a myriad of dense detail - and yet it's also profoundly melodic.
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    One of me favs and something I frequently binge on is Bob Drakes solo albums. If you're out there and have never heard all of them, you really should.

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    I dig me some Bobby D. Been wrapping my sweaty ears around The Shunned Country recently. Probably my favorite of his, an' stuff.

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    Shunned Country has one of my fav bass tones ever....evah... evah.

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    hear hear for Bob Drake! big fan over here
    think Arx Pilosa is my favourite of his solo records

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    Quote Originally Posted by Udi Koomran View Post
    Ahvak ?
    Quote Originally Posted by chalkpie View Post
    I listened to that a few weeks ago, it's been a while. Still sounds great, amazing attention to detail in these pieces. Always hear new shit everytime.
    Me too!
    Agree 100%.

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