Typographica: Floating Opera
★★★★★

RECOMENDO
(texto retirado do Jazz Archives - clique no link acima para baixar o disco)

This brilliant bunch of creative music is really true masterpiece!!! Extra class musicianship, top-notch studio work, very adventurous and intelligent compositions plus perfect and juicy spectrum of sounds! I got this CD two weeks ago and cannot stop wondering about all those highest qualities of Real Cultural Shock! But - could anybody say where to get two first recordings of Tipographica (this kind of task seems to me impossible - I have heard only God Says I Can’t Dance before Floating Opera and - both are essential)? Well, Japanese weird RIO-ish experimental all-instrumental jazz-rock combo having Italian-language name Tipographica was active during nineties of XX century. They released altogether four albums, first two of them are unfortunately out-of-print and impossible to get… In addition to guitar-bass-keyboards-drums they enriched their soundspectrum with saxophone and trombone, also with mokkin (xylophone of Japanese Kabuki theatre) and other percussion instruments. The music has relationship with Frank Zappa’s jazz compositions, Henry Cow’s instrumentals, Picchio Dal Pozzo’s Abbiamo-Tutti-I-Suoi-Problemi-era, Santana’s Caravanserai-Welcome-era, Mahavishnu Orchestra…and many more…and sometimes hints to Japanese folklore… Surely my all- time-favourite band among Japanese rock-releated music ever! Fave tunes? All the record is one big fave tune… But the really burning saxophone solo in Highway At Samurai Play comes into my mind. Unfortunately I have the greatest pleasure to give five stars in these progarchives- page (and everywhere in general) quite seldom. But today is probably the last this-kind- of-celebration-day in this year. Five stars really to Tipographica!!!

King Missile – Happy Hour (1992)
★★★★½

grande disco de uma banda peculiar.

“Essentially a vehicle for the musings of John S. Hall, King Missile merged off-kilter spoken word monologues with eclectic, mildly psychedelic rock & roll. Hall’s dry, absurdist sense of humor colored much of the group’s output, blurring the lines between comedy, Beat poetry, narrative prose, and simple rock lyrics. Yet in spite of their focus on Hall’s literary bent and all its New York artiness, King Missile was most definitely a band, and relied on music to play a much more than perfunctory role in their overall effect.” (AllMusic)

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Dead Man’s Bones – Dead Man’s Bones (2009)

texto e dowload deste ótimo disco:
★★★★½
Happy Family: Happy Family, 1995

grande banda, lança novo disco
baixe no link: The Bad Plus / Never Stop [2010]
leia resenha aporias do disco de 2005 do trio aqui