King Crimson's Trey Gunn co-produces this combination of reason music in addition to progressive stone alongside percussionist Bob Muller. Muller pumps out John Bonham-esque grooves spell simultaneously playing tabla in addition to manus drums. The psychedelic quotient runs high alongside the additions of guitar in addition to Turkish saz, past times Tony Geballe. Combined alongside Gunn's metallic element sensibilities, the trio culminates into an acidic version of John McLaughlin's Shakti.
"Big, bad bass ostinatos, slinky odd-time signatures, in addition to percussion from every corner of the globe are the reason for this collection of other worldly soundscapes." - Bass Player magazine.
Gunn, the Warr Touch Guitar playing virtuoso of King Crimson in addition to The Trey Gunn Band, continues to amaze his audiences fourth dimension in addition to fourth dimension i time to a greater extent than alongside his lulling melodies in addition to furious deep grooves. Gunn in addition to companionship fuse their private sounds into brilliantly textured masterpieces, where tranquilizing melodies in addition to primal madness trip the low-cal fantastic effortlessly together. -- from the House of Blues review.
Robert Fripp disciple Trey Gunn has taken just about fourth dimension out from his King Crimson 24-hour interval undertaking to make his novel release, the strangely titled The Joy of Molybdenum. The album relies heavily on Gunn's groundbreaking piece of job on 8, 10, in addition to 12 string impact guitars, in addition to besides features guitarist Tony Geballe in addition to percussionist Bob Muller. Upon get-go listen, you lot volition SWEAR that you've establish a lost King Crimson disc or are listening to just about other i of Fripp's "ProjeKcts; however, upon farther listening you'll realize that... well... genuinely you'll soundless retrieve you're listening to Fripp or Crimson. If anything is to hold out gathered from The Joy of Molybdenum, it is that spell you lot tin create got the man child out of King Crimson, you lot can't create got the Crimson out of the boy. And that's both proficient in addition to bad...
The CD kicks off really impressively alongside the championship track, which features just about killer low-end impact playing past times Gunn in addition to a funky groove seat downwardly past times drummer Muller. As a affair of fact, the get-go 4 tracks on the CD arrive at alongside the groove onset - "The Glove" features just about amazing Hendrix-style jams emanating from Gunn's impact guitar, "Hard Winds Redux" sounds similar an updated in addition to to a greater extent than danceable version of 80's Crimson classic "Disclipline," in addition to "Rune Song: The Origin of Water" succeeds alongside just about breezy drumming in addition to Gunn in addition to Gaballe's tandem "math rock" guitar runs. While Gunn is plainly meant to hold out the nous attraction on these cuts, it is genuinely Muller's drumming that drives the tracks in addition to keeps the beat moving along. It's quite obvious that this band tin pretty much throw downwardly a funky groove at a moment's notice, in addition to it is the tracks that create got payoff of this property that are the nigh successful on the album. Which is just why I was totally stunned that the band decided to devote the terminal two-thirds of the album to a non-descript string of repetitive in addition to uninspired ambient compositions...
Where the get-go few songs on The Joy of Molybdenum were examples of good executed future-rock tunes, the terminal batch of songs on the album are examples of plodding in addition to uneventful experiments inward noise. By taking Muller's effective drumming out of the mix, the songs lose a lot of their power, in addition to instead move a string of bland trance-like cuts i correct subsequently the other. The album's closer, "Tehlikeli Madde" picks upwardly the measuring a niggling fleck - but past times this indicate the listener volition in all probability create got given upwardly on Gunn in addition to Co. or fallen asleep altogether.
In short, The Joy of Molybdenum is a really uneven release. The faster in addition to to a greater extent than rhythmic tracks that start off the CD are fantabulous showcases for the band's instrumental prowess, but the ambient compositions that circular out the CD are musical wastelands that but suck all the life out of the listening experience. Hopefully Gunn's hereafter efforts volition focus less on background ambient music in addition to to a greater extent than on in-your-face funk grooves. Unforunately, alongside Joy, this Gunn misses his mark.
Track listing:
1.The Joy of Molybdenum 05:27
2.The Glove 03:57
3.Hard Winds Redux 04:08
4.Rune Song: The Origin Of Water 06:13
5.Untune The Sky 07:17
6.Sozzle 04:53
7.Gate of Dreams 05:22
8.Brief Encounter 05:57
9.Tehlikeli Madde 03:41
Personnel:
Trey Gunn: 8, 10, in addition to 12 string impact guitars, mellotron, theremin, shortwave, smokey guitar;
Tony Geballe: electrical guitar, saz, acoustic 12-string guitar, leslie guitars, UPS guitars;
Bob Muller: drum kit, tabla, bandir, darbouka, bodhran, dumbek, gamelan drum, rik, metals, shakers
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