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quite good.David Marshall
Zaar broke up in late 2006, but two of the members, brothers Michael and Yan
Hazera, decided to embark upon a studio project to be titled Akhan Projekt.This event premiered in 1999, and their debut CD
contains music composed for it.Axis has begun recording their second CD,
due to be released later in 2003.Backup (Scheduled Release Dec.Thierry Zaboitzeff is the bassist for Art
Zoyd.Thierry Zaboitzeff was the bassist for Art
Zoyd.Dugrenot
(bass), both who would remain long term members of the band, and Mauricia
Platon on vocals.Subsequent albums became increasingly fusion oriented, while not losing
the strong zeuhl influence, and the
hungarian folk influence from Seffer.The
explore the fusion ideas of Magma yet don't
have the vocal language developed in Magma by
drummer Christian Vander.Yochk'o Seffer is generous with his
soprano sax.These two guys trade licks and solos over some nice fusion
grooves.Magma, but if you prefer instrumental work, like
me, then you'll want to hear this fine example of zuehl
fusion.Magma and other artists of the early seventies in
France, Zao released five or so albums.At first listen I wasn't
impressed but many listens later I've come to greatly appreciate their
proficiency.Art Zoyd, Third
Ear Band, and Univers Zero.It has
haunted me to this very day, and impressed me much more than some of the
other "zeuhl" bands I've
heard (like Eskaton).The sound quality on Zao in Tokyo is excellent, and for my tastes, the music is the
most interesting I've heard from Zao since their early days.The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life (91)
You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol.The core of Zaragon joined forces in 1979.He does sing with a
trace of accent, which doesn't bother me, but doesn't have quite the
powerful delivery of Walsh.In a nutshell, what we have here
is a German poor man's Uriah Heep (can such a thing exist??Track listing: Eternal Light 5:39, Mr.Purple's "Child in Time".Nothing very fantastic, but if you like the
genre, you should like this.The first album Il Sogno is pretty good musically, leaning on
Italian folk and rock, with nice instrumentation and female vocals.Only problem is I think it was transferred to CD from an LP,
there's some pops and clicks to be heard.Some of it seems to be live but that doesn't save it.Joaquin Lievano on guitar, and Steve
Kaplan on synthesizers, plus two percussionists.If you like your prog with a
heavy edge is is a must.Dream but with its own angle.Released on the
Initial Recording Company (IRC 003) and each LP was individually numbered.Echoes of Kansas, Kaipa and maybe
even UK can be heard in Quodlibet (Musea FGBG 4278.It
seems that UK and Jethro Tull also
were big influences on Zello.Other songs are pretty well perfomed, but, anyway they are still
Kansas imitations.It sounds as if it
was all recorded in one take with everyone playing together.Well, so much for the recording quality.The "prog" content is mostly in the analog synthesizer
sounds, some pretty cool sounding and others laughable by modern standards.The compositions are
OK, but tend to ramble quite a bit with long stretches for solos that don't
quite seem to be sure where they're going, particularly the keyboard solos.Of
course, that was par for the course in those days, but this is a prime example of
why nobody does this sort of thing any more nowadays.These folks were obviously doing what they wanted to do, and hence nobody ever
heard of them.This annoyed me the first few times I listened to
it, but even though I still can't force it to make sense to me, I've begun to like
it.The songs definitely become more progressive as the album continues, oddly
at about the time the lyrics switch from Italian to English.Begining with Track 7,
"Fragile", the songs begin to sound more progressive.The piece
ends with some raucus (drunken?Zepeda is a mexican electronic musician in the space realm, who also
uses prehispanic instruments and percussion.Mexican Space Music at its best, with influences from Prehispanic
music.The best of those was Templo Mayor, which
I'd recommend to all fans of the space genre.It is light years away from those modern electronics which utilizes as a source the
bottomless reservoirs of progressive and experimental musics, such as Squarepusher,
and is only wedding Shub Niggurathian broodings
with sylicon rhythmics of the popular electronica.Birth Control keyboardist Zeus B.Europium has a very modern sound typical of much late
seventies prog.There is undoubtedly some good playing on this LP, Can's
Jaki Liebzeit appears on a couple of tracks.The short tracks are
actually the most impressive.There
are elements of Triumvirat,
Kraftwerk,
Klaus Schulze as well as Giorgio Moroder and The Human
League.Zingari are gypsies and troubadours from ancient
Greece and Gaia is a goddess of the earth.The altered state might also be caused by
meditation, exercise or sexual arousal.Zingaia's first album Beneath the Veil
is a perfect example ...Henry Cow or ELP sense,
this is an innovative album in its own right.And if you're with the right lady, you may me able to stimulate more than just your
ears while listening to this album.The CD
is simply breathtaking.Start with The Rotter's Club and proceed onward.Zingale
effectively blend violin, keys, and guitar into their own unique belnd.However
with Zingale the key really is the music.They sing in
English, the vocals sound a bit like Beatles harmonies, but the vocal
melodies sound very much like Yes melodies.They
are more violin oriented (which means you won't get too much guitar solos,
but rather lots of great Gentle Giant's
violin).They've also got a good drummer and a great bass player.The bassist is pretty tasteful but the drumming is
not overly complex.Kultivator, Zingale are certainly a
worthwhile band to audition.But Circus Maximus I would describe more
as "Progressive Techno" than those bands.Underwater is quite a bit more mellow, thanks I suppose to
Alquimia's composing influence and the contribution of
her ethereal vocals to this recording.The rhythms here begin to sound less Techno and
more Tribal, though not as much as on Alquimia's previous
CD's.These two musicians styles complement each other well.Click here to order Zinkl albums from
BSC Music.Their
debut CD, Luminiferous Ether is incredible, especially considering this is their first
recording.It's interesting enough that I wanted to preserve a copy
here for your perusal, though you can see the same thing on their web
site for the time being.It's titled "Does Man pass through life, or Life pass through Man?"My highest
recommendation for this one, and I'm really looking forward to more from these gents.Sounds odd but 'tis that.Shub Niggurath manner, but wants to challenge the
listener going chasing it after it slap him on the cheek or better said, stuff his ear
with, eg.The
first cassette has both harsh sound and music, and could be defined as "core
in opposition" as it is quite wild and without compromise.Tiranha, things became lighter but hundred times weirder.Using
Captain
Beefheart era Trout Mask as a base, album is dadaistic musically and
lirically, tongue in cheek humour abounds.Thus the ending
result is totally unique!!Nothing could be further from the truth.At least
it's all instrumental ...Actually, they probably would have been
forced to sing in Russian, which is likely why they didn't sing at all).But it's
not prog, and it's not what most of us would call "Space Music" either.This band took their name from a Frank Zappa song.Three band members played keyboards, so naturally the album has sumptuous
keyboard passages of Grand Piano, Hammond Organ,
Moog synthesizer, clavinet
and some Mellotron.The bass player has a "busy"
and up front technique that is standard for this genre and the album features lots of
extended instrumentals which can get fairly bombastic in places and dreamy in others.The CD booklet reveals that an (unreleased) second album was recorded in
1979 with David Hanselmann involved on vocals.Jerry Lucky's book "The Progressive Rock Files",
where he describes them ...The cover is all white, with only a
face of a scary old man staring at you.Zorn is a prolific musician with a huge discography, too large to fit here.If you're into organized noise, this is for you.The Torture Garden, which consists of 42 tracks in 22
minutes, all of them bursts of extreme noise, but done by a crack avant
jazz band.His best material has a
schizophrenic approach, where the music will jolt suddenly from one
idiom to another.The Big Gundown
reworks pieces by spaghetti western composer Ennio Morricone for stunning results,
the music is surreal and strange, throwing in all sorts of styles into a
blender.With weird motors clanking noises and whirring, Zoviet France have
mastered the art of music sculpture.Maybe you could discribe it as a mixture between Throbbing
Gristle and Tangerine Dream.Canterbury discography and Gentle Giant
opus.As Bauhaus were influenced by
VDGG and
Peter Hammill, this may not cause any trouble.Production is not the best, but when
better it would probably made this an explosive mixture.Some opposing is
here as well and some darkness escapes, but not so much as with
Univers Zero
and definitely less than it is usually ascribed to ZUFR.The music on this CD consists of the main body of their
material which was released on LP in probably '77 or '78, and two "bonus"
cuts which were recorded by a significantly different lineup of the band in
'74.I've never heard It's a Beautiful
Day but I wouldn't imagine that this is all that different from their
better stuff.The tune gets even more anonymous as it
progresses with more of the San Francisco psychedelic influence when the
singing comes in.This is where the two bonus cuts come in.The main difference in these
earlier songs is that electric guitar was quite prominent in them.I'll describe the tracks as best I can:
Song six ("Law Like Love") starts with a cool spacy synth figure but then
descends into boring heavy guitar riffing with female vocals.Fender Rhodes and a
*very* vaguely Hugh Hopperish bass line.I'm trying to find good things to say here!Canterbury influence here, but in my view
it's really pretty superficial, so if you ever hear it said that there's a
"heavy" Canterbury vibe going on here, tread lightly.Le Mariage Du Ciel Et De L'Enfer (LP)
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