"Beyond" played on June 17, 2013
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"This musical contrast is complemented by director Mario Latham’s video, which features dirty stone sidewalks next to pristine cobblestones, urban decay foregrounded against a bustling city life, film sped up and slowed down, imagery from various periods of New York jumbled together to set the structural, claustrophobic elements of city life (signs telling you to do this and that) against the ecstasy of dance and the freedom implied in wide open skies."
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"Through these basic means of banging and shouting, they generate some very evocative music; often noisy and loud, but sometimes sweet and gentle."
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"The Brooklyn group’s heavily hypnotic, wildly psychedelic head stew imbibes deeply from the trance-like ritual sounds of the ancient, indigenous music of Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. And on June 28 NYMPH takes the trance to Hudson for a performance at the Spotty Dog Books & Ale."
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"Grain" charts #5 on CFRU's Jazz & Experimental for the week ending June 14 2013.
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"Life In The Sugar Candle Mines" charts at #53 on KZSU's Top 100 chart and #14 in JAZZ for the Week ending 16 June 2013.
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FYI, first rock show listing I've ever seen on a craft beer website...
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"Ribot really let his fingers fly at many points during Monday’s set, but he also led his group through the droning textures of a piece aptly called 'Prayer.'"
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"Elements that have appeared throughout are assembled into a cohesive whole, and when aggressive avant-punk-jazz juxtaposes with Tin Pan Alley chord progressions, it makes perfect sense."
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"Power Ballads seems to fracture as it progresses, like a bard at first sweetly strumming and poetically articulating the good and evil of common people, but who then inexplicably goes haywire..."
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"The setting is avant, the sound organic, and the chiaroscuro excited. If you are looking for adventure will find bread for your teeth." (translated from Italian)
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"Although Loren was a bit under-the weather, this set was still special. Suzanne sounds as if she is improvising or at least choosing her words selectively to evoke the dark recesses of that which troubles all. Guitarist Burn often played a repeating, tribal, phrase over and over while Loren takes his time to play lead and add bluesy. menacing lines, on top or underneath."
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"every now and again, a group comes along that shatters any preconceived notions of how jazz should sound"
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" Life In The Sugar Candle Mines " charts at #15 on KZSU's Jazz charts for the week ending 6/9/2013.
check it out"Life In The Sugar Candle Mines " charts at 93 on KZSU for the week ending 6/9/2013.
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