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One of the great things about following an artist like Chris Cutler over a thirty-year career is to see how qualities in his earliest work are transformed over the years and projects. From the art song experimentation of Henry Cow, Cutler has continued to write interesting texts which are not intuitively suited for musical expression, and then to find collaborators to set them to brilliant and sometimes difficult music. Although the art song as a genre hails from composers like Schubert, Cutler takes his influences from Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and Bartók as well, and comes up with a monumental achievement with the Science Group, a worthy successor to a line that includes Art Bears, Domestic Stories, and the (EC) Nudes. His primary collaborators here are studio wizard and multi-instrumentalist Bob Drake and keyboardist/composer Steven Tickmayer. Longtime colleague Fred Frith reprises guitar duties, and Claudio Puntin plays wind instruments (recalling Lindsay Cooper's work with Henry Cow). Amy Denio once again takes up the thorny texts and angular melodies. Tickmayer's music is all over, from the ethereal chamber music of "Engineering" to the prog rock keyboard solo in "Parity," from the chorale of "Love" to the driving rock of "Schroedinger's Box," changing tempi and moods as rapidly as the "protean masses interrupt, corrupt, erupt" ("Chimera"). Cutler's lyrics, inspired by The New Scientist and the work of George Steiner, center around epistemological and scientific themes, light years away from the banalities of most pop music, but also a continuation of his text work (recall that Cutler set Thomas Pynchon to music in his Cassiber group). This is a superb album, both in itself and as part of the continuing genre expanding work from Chris Cutler and his musical associates. ~ Caleb Deupree

Recorded between May 1997 & January 1999 at Studio Midi Pyrenees, Caudeval, France.

Personnel: FF (guitar).

Personnel: Bob Drake (vocals, guitar, bass, drums); Amy Denio (vocals); Stevan Tickmayer (guitar, violin, zither, piano, keyboards, samples); Fred Frith (guitar); Claudio Puntin (clarinet, bass clarinet); Chris Cutler (drums).

The Wire (1/00, pp.88,90) - "...explores/explodes songform with a tortuous, multilayered harmonic and rhythmic intensity that few could even dream of, let alone execute....This substantial work demands repeat hearings..."
Mojo (Publisher) (5/00, p.98) - "...A coherent and important piece of work, and not without a sense of humor itself....[Chris] Cutler's lyrics...grapple with some fairly intractable scientific and philosophical ideas....Modern classical composer Stevan Tickmayer has set them to music....As school textbooks say - Physics Is Fun."

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List Price $17.97 (You save $1.28)
Category Rock Albums, Rock/Pop CDs, Experimental Rock, Art Rock, Experimental (Noise)
Label ReR USA
Orig Year 1999
All Time Product Rank 482,642
CD Universe Part number 1066595
Catalog number 108
Discs 1
Release Date Dec 21, 1999
Studio/Live Studio
Mono/Stereo Stereo
Producer Bob Drake
Engineer Bob Drake
Recording Time 49 minutes
Personnel Stevan Tickmayer - guitar, violin, zither, piano, keyboards, samples
FF - guitar

Also: Fred Frith, Claudio Puntin, Amy Denio, Bob Drake, Chris Cutler
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Click to hear an MP3 sound sampleTrkSong
1Mnemonic
2Aleph Zero
3Engineering
4Lost in Translation
5Chimera
6Parity
7Love
8Open or Closed?
9Napoleon
10.......In....
11.................Schroedinger's Box
12Event Horizon
13Lab Notes
14Scale Invarians
15There Must Be Something
16(Untitled)
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