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SGX emerges from his slumber with "Hero of the Grey Area." This is the most focused, cohesive album focusing on instrumental pieces. SGX intersperses electro, breakbeat, and industrial beats between lush orchestrations, growling synth basses, and transporting soundscapes. "Hero" is at the same time electronic and synthetic plus natural and human. Unlike his previous albums such as "Chroma" and "Synesthetic," which feature a mixture of not only genres, but tones, "Hero of the Grey Area" exudes a more homogeneous tone and feeling while still exploring fusing ideas from many genres. This is music for listening and sometimes takes its time exploring an idea in the vein of BT's "This Binary Universe.""Hero of the Grey Area" features "A Meal for a Whale" - a track made with only a software sequencer/sampler, a piano, and the audio toy/game Electroplankton for the Nintendo DS as sound sources. SGX effects, samples, records, and manipulates his way through this at once lo-fi and lush recording creating tides of relaxed beauty and exuberance. Also featured is the four-movement "I Transmit This" - an exercise in re-use and modulation of interchangeable musical ideas. SGX begins with simple overlapping piano melodies that appear and re-appear in later parts of the piece as different instruments and ideas, inspiring new ideas. I Transmit This branches, grows new limbs, and finally returns to the main concepts which in the end bear the influences of the new ideas that were themselves inspired by the original concepts. Hero Of The Grey Area Music SGX Hero Of The Grey Area Songs | 1. | Hero Of The Grey Area |
| 2. | Coactive (Over My Shoulder Mix) |
| 3. | A Meal For A Whale |
| 4. | Peripatetic |
| 5. | Amity |
| 6. | Have No Tyrant |
| 7. | This All Is Fiction |
| 8. | I.Transmit.This.Dawn |
| 9. | I.Transmit.This.Transfiguration |
| 10. | I.Transmit.This.Composite |
| 11. | I.Transmit.This.Return |
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Indispensable global fusion music from Claus Zundel (AKA "The Brave"), this fifth outing (hence the title) finds the reclusive Spanish wizard stepping back and letting the virtuosic flamenco guitar of fellow Ibiza resident Paco Fernandez take center stage. Also on board is the African singer Luna Mohamed, who lends exotic vocal caresses to several tracks, and the mournful cello of Eric Plummetaz. As with previous B-Tribe work, the songs flow seamlessly together in a delirious blend of Gypsy camp romance and chill-out electronica. The centerpiece here is the haunting "Ode to Dolores Del Rio" which opens with a thunderously distorted bass string rumble before contrasting melancholy passages of wooden flute with effect-laden guitar and gentle chimes. "Anika" and "Angelic ...
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Her whispery, sultry, and smoky vocals are subtle and languid. Her phrasing is exquisitely intimate and conversational, relying on odd metered timing rather than volume to make an emotional point. Her masterly chord cluster piano style punctuates each vocal phrase. The song arrangements (mostly for a septet with some big band ...
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