China is Near by New York's pioneer experimental group White Out, represents their third album and promises to be their most adventurous release to date. This session busts out of the gate, and careens all over the tonal soundscape zagging from icy calm to furious insurrection in sixty seconds. The estimable talents of multi-instrumentalist Lin Culbertson and drummer Tom Surgal are fused with the efforts put forth by master eclectic Jim O'Rourke, their frequent collaborator in recent years. Rounding out t...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. There are many who have asked if this record is a collaboration between Sonic Youth, The Ex, and the Insane Clown Posse. No, stupid. Does that make even one bit of sense? Two of rock and roll's most repsected avante-garde bands teaming up with WWF inspired rap-metal? I.C.P. is the acclaimed Dutch free-jazz collective -- not the aforementioned clownish human waste collective. Three bands, eleven musicians, all making a furious racket without limits, boundaries, or conventions.

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People uncertain about the appeal of an album of percussion music should know two things up front. First, the three longest pieces on Drums Along the Pacific feature a non-percussion solo instrument. Second, Lou Harrison's interest in percussion music was split equally between rhythm and melody. In percussion-only pieces like "Simfony #13" and "Song of Quetzalc=atl" -- both performed here by the William Winant Percussion Group -- he uses sets of instruments with different pitches (glasses, w...   [ read more ]

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