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Plainly more accessible than their previous ODDITIES, this disc still has Spring Heel Jack's trademark love of dense textures and all things outre. With John Surman on bass clarinet, the band comes across like Jon Hassel and Josef Zawinul playing Gershwin. Spring Heel Jack use a little more distortion in their sound here than on previous discs, which gives much of the disc a thick, urgent sound. With some great track sequencing and segues, DISAPPEARED is irresistible.
Spring Heel Jack's seventh album starts out with one of the catchiest things they've ever done; the infectious "Rachel Point." It's got a driving groove that just gets under your skin in the right kind of way; it's so good that it almost stops you from digging deeper into this disc for the rest of its treasures. And yes, there's gold in them thar hills.
Personnel: John Surman (bass clarinet).
Q (9/00, p.108) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Challenging but good." Uncut (10/00, p.90) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Thoughful, raw, and genuinely innovative....A sound that is superficially drum'n'bass, but capable of devouring any influence it damn well likes..." Alternative Press (10/00, p.109) - 4 out of 5 - "...A cut above 90% of today's electronica....neatly balancing amorphous tonal explorations with chamber-jazz and groovy spy-flick vibes..." CMJ (9/11/00, p.26) - "...Brittle instrumental tracks driven by hard, distorted bass rhythms and whipcrack snare samples..." NME (Magazine) (8/19/00, p.35) - 7 out of 10 - "...Stealthy innovation and breathless compendium of sounds, amounting to a kind of avant-garde 'musique concrete'..." Spring Heel Jack Disappeared Songs | 1. | Rachel Point |
| 2. | Mit Wut |
| 3. | Disappeared 1 |
| 4. | Bane |
| 5. | Galina |
| 6. | Trouble and Luck |
| 7. | I Undid Myself |
| 8. | Lester |
| 9. | To Die a Little |
| 10. | Disappeared 2 |
| 11. | Wolfing |
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Purchase Disappeared CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Little Richard Georgia Peach CD (1991)
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$12.45 Recorded between 1955 & 1959. Includes liner notes by Billy Vera.
Richard Penniman - aka Little Richard, aka the Beauty, aka the Georgia Peach (hence the title) began recording in 1951 (see Bear Family's excellent THE FORMATIVE YEARS ...
| | Red House Painters Ocean Beach CD (1995)
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$10.35 Like much of the Red House Painters' work, OCEAN BEACH is marked by an overriding sense of despair, but Mark Kozelek, the Painters' founder and guiding force, has a way of transforming his melancholia into seduction. The record begins on the lightest of notes with "Cabezon," a languid instrumental that would sound appropriate as the opening theme for a kids' TV show. The spare, tender "Summer Dress" follows, with Kozelek's resonant voice, accompanied only by guitar and violin, conveying an almost palpable sense of longing.
An electric guitar finally kicks ...
| | Spring Heel Jack Treader CD (1999)
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$14.65 Is TREADER drum-and-bass? Sort of. That opening blast of overlaid orchestral samples has less in common with Goldie or Roni Size than it does with Krzysztof Penderecki and Gyorgy Ligeti. Who? If you know that bizarre choral and orchestral music heard in The Shining and 2001, hold these European composers responsible. ...
| | Spring Heel Jack Amassed CD (2002)
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$13.89 The transformation of Spring Heel Jack into its own brand of avant electronic jazz continues with Amassed, rather logically following up on the previous year's Masses as another entry in the "Blue Series." Performers like Evan Parker and Matthew Shipp once again return, accompanied by a slew of fellow improvisational musicians (drummer Han Bennink, trombonist Paul Rutherford, and bassist George Trebar among them). If not a regular performing group capturing a nuanced sound, the lineup readily demonstrates both the abilities of the performers and the relaxed-but-on-point edge of the overall performance ("Wormwood" is a fine standout, Bennink's drumming an understated but crucial part of the arrangement). There's also a ringer from the rock world -- Spiritualized's Jason Pierce, who had Spring Heel Jack as an opening act back in 1997 and ...
| | United States Of America CD (1968) Bonus Tracks; Reissue
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$13.99 Originally released on Columbia in 1968, The United States of America is one of the legendary pure psychedelic space records. Some of the harder-rocking tunes have a fun house recklessness that recalls aspects of early Pink Floyd and the Velvet Underground at their freakiest; the sedate, exquisitely orchestrated ballads, especially "Cloud Song" and the wonderfully titled "Love Song for the Dead Che," are among the best relics of dreamy psychedelia. Occasionally things get too excessive and self-conscious, and the attempts at comedy are a bit flat, but otherwise this is a near classic. ~ Richie Unterberger
In its original form, the United States of America's self-titled (and sole album) was one of the most exciting and experimental psychedelic albums of the late '60s, blending searingly imaginative electronics with equally ...
| | M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts CD (2003)
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$9.69 Initial pressings of DEAD CITIES... include a bonus Enhanced CD.
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| | Flanger Outer Space/Inner Space CD (2001)
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$12.85 With 2001's Outer Space/Inner Space -- how apt a title and motif for this space odyssey! -- Flanger vault even further forward into the future of jazz while somehow managing to keep one foot in the roots of hard bop, free jazz, Latin jazz, and samba. The grounding element is most likely the core of guest musicians, including players from Cologne, Germany; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Santiago, Chile. On the title track a robotic voice chants "outer space" over decidedly retro Latin jazz rhythms augmented by occasional synthesizer flourishes and beats that are equal parts organic percussion and electro loops, again blurring the line between jazz old and new, which appears to be the Flanger modus operandi. "Galak" is an astronaut's floating dream with its fluid blend of spacy vibes and earthy acoustic bass, its spiraling ascent chased along by dueling congas and fusion guitar. A squelchy computer rhythm clashes with driving acoustic drums while two keyboards and processed bass and guitar battle it out furiously on "The Man Who Fell to Earth," evocative of a more down to earth (so to speak) Squarepusher. A sexy Rhodes fuels the robot dance of "Inner Spacesuit," while flailing funk ...
| | Billy Idol CD (1982)
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$11.65 All tracks have been digitally remastered using 24 bit technology.
Although Generation X had been relatively ...
| | Devendra Banhart Oh Me Oh My...The Way The Day Goes By CD (2002)
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$12.79 The first thing that strikes you about Devendra Banhart is his utterly unique and soft voice, which seems a mix of Nick Drake and Marc Bolan. "Roots (If the Sky Were a Stone)" is a perfect example of this, as Banhart uses his vocals and an acoustic guitar to get his brief yet often memorable points across. Originally recorded on shoddy and broken four-track recorders, the songs have a definitive roughness and audible hiss on nearly all of them, giving them a certain authenticity rarely ...
| | Masked Animals Simple Joys Of Life, The CD (2004)
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| | Karaoke Ultimate Ez Key CD Soundtracks: He Lives CD (2006)
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| | Crooners CD (2006) (Import)
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| | Pico Morning Sun CD (2008) (Import)
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