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Greg Bendian's Interzone |
| Gregg Bendian
vibraphone & glockenspiel Alex Cline drums & percussion Mark Dresser bass Nels Cline guitar |
1.Countermeasures (10:51) 2.Sunblade Strafe the Continent (14:21) 3.Blood: Sassoon zi tavit (10:41) 4.Titled (9:29) 5.I-zones (13:45) 6.Debacle (7:52) |
| Bendian is known primarily for his work as an improvising percussionist with Derek Bailey and Cecil Taylor. This release, the debut recording of his group Interzone, should go a long way toward establishing him as a group leader, composer, and vibes player of the first order. Rigorous and swinging compositionally based music with some kind of prog-rock slant, played by an exquisitely versatile ensemble. | |
| "a strange and
totally cool avant-jazz rejoinder to the promise of prog rock, interzone is unrelenting in
its pursuit of deep-beauty and the veneer of complexity." Father Yod "no vibes record has done as much for me since i can remember." Cadence "top 5 albums of 1997" Cadence readers poll "one of the most daring and satisfying music releases of 1997." EXclaim "file under: oddities" The Wire |
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