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VON FRICKLE

Heavy Prog • United States


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Band of the new millenium, sound of the contemporary, art ascension of no specific familiarisation, the quartet of VON FRICKLE (Lee Fehr on guitar and guitar synthesizers, John Ganser as main percussion-showing though talent of mixing and synthing, bassist Dan Meyer and Ken Thornton, also guitarist and "electronist") is an agressive (as in hard sounding) expression of modern prog (art) rock music, a music exploration devotement, in the lines of infused instrumentality and in the tempo of rock rush. Named after Lee's great great uncle, Baron Fredrick Von Frickle, the crimsonian ingenuity of an outspoken musicianship helds to high regards both the quality of level-headed madness and the quantity of sour perfection. An experience, in all, recommended; in else, totally aquaintable.

The purely instrumental band VON FRICKLE has a generous stylistic style to offer as to only be labeled as another modern crimsonian esthetique band. Basically a heavy discipline rock movement, they incline as well to full experimentality, to sound streams, to esthetique play, towards "messing around" the mind-music's limits, towards great pulse of electronica manipulation, finally towards an vigor art of different claustro-colors. Rough improvisation, still free-mind ideals outline. Spasmodic leads, amorphous creativity, conceptual abstract, art trance, grooves and "grins", encrypts and soph pulses, odd rhythms, textured polyphonic vibrations, electronic noise, sequencers significance, endless supply of fills and small variations, atmospheric crude and of course beautiful melodies - everything creates the "stereotype" of unique music, heavy listening, tremendous experience. As already mentioned, in most times the main impression is instinctively KING CRIMSON, still the prog barriers are flexible towards other main Art Rock impulses, towards more modern approaches (DIXIE DREGS especially) towards post rock control and, besides, the theatrical approach resides of RESIDENTS or ZAPPA as well. Miles DAVIS gets to be peculiarly quoted and so are PINK FLOYD, in their early fashion, explaining most likely the pure smokes inside such terrifying meditations that the band can most of times offer symbolically (still these more obscure reminescence remain the call of biographers).

Speaking of theatrical, VON FRICKLE have a great gift at offering live shows, projections, productions and presentations. Thinking of things like the white suits, the expressionless masks, the video proje...
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3.00 | 1 ratings
Sounds from Inside the Mind of Von Frickle
2000
3.82 | 2 ratings
Feeding the Organic Compute
2001
3.00 | 1 ratings
Frank Works in a Factory / Beyond Weird Series Episode One
2002
1.00 | 1 ratings
Vibrate - Transmit - Receive
2002
1.00 | 1 ratings
Franks Great Escape / Beyond Weird Series Episode 2
2005
4.00 | 1 ratings
Mission 4.9
2005
3.56 | 9 ratings
Arrhythmia
2006
3.82 | 2 ratings
vonFrickle
2010

VON FRICKLE Live Albums (CD, LP, MC, SACD, DVD-A, Digital Media Download)

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The Live Show
2001
2.00 | 1 ratings
Live: The 40 Fingers of Doctor V
2008

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 Feeding the Organic Compute by VON FRICKLE album cover Studio Album, 2001
3.82 | 2 ratings

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Review by rik wilson

4 stars This is a delightful and intriguing collection of songs. The zaniest Zappa instrumentals seem to have an influence ; as well as a nod to King Crimson, Oingo Boingo, and Led Bib. The song "miles" showcases the incredible bass playing of Dan Myer and the drummer John Ganser wailing feeding the organic computer is a prog masterpiece. This song has a Primus type bass line ; spacey horn solos ; and atmospheric echoes of space. In the last third of the song the band shifts direction and slows down into a jazzy interlude replete with theremin and cascading rhythms.

 vonFrickle by VON FRICKLE album cover Studio Album, 2010
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von Frickle Heavy Prog

Review by AFlowerKingCrimson

4 stars I first came across this band at a prog festival called Prog in the Park in Rochester, NY. A couple of years later I saw them at the annual outdoor progressive rock festival called Progday located in Chapel Hill North Carolina. Obviously because of Covid it was held remotely last year but at least they still technically had it. Von Frickle played at one of the last times I went back in the 2000's. One thing that makes them stand apart from other bands is the fact that they dress in all white uniforms that hide their faces. I don't know for sure but I believe the reason they do this is so that people focus on the music and not the way the musicians look. I believe the Residents may have been anonymous for the same reason although I don't know this for sure.

This album(cd)was sent to me by someone from the Chicago area(where the band are from) who unfortunately passed away not too long ago. The music is entirely instrumental but with the way they play you really don't miss the vocals. Sometimes instrumental music can be boring. That's not the case with Von Frickle.

Although they aren't listed in the cd booklet the tracks are mostly mid length (5-8 minutes or so)and are mostly centered around the guitar. There is synthesizer and guitar synthesizer credited but the instrument that seems to stand out is the guitar. For the first few tracks there doesn't seem to be much in the way of guitar solos. However, a few good ones do show up a bit later on. Also, while keyboards do surface from time to time they are used mostly for texture and are usually somewhat in the background. Also, there are no really overly elaborate musical structures. Instead you get solid and often intense riff driven melodic progressive rock that is well done and fun to listen to. If you are a fan of Djam Karet or the instrumental tracks of later King Crimson then this may be up your alley.

Despite their brief time in the prog spotlight this band is unfortunately largely forgotten these days. That's a shame because they were very good at what they did. While I can't speak for their other releases this is a great album of purely instrumental progressive rock. Unfortunately, this one might be pretty tough to find. Some of their other albums are on amazon but you might have to do a lot of digging to find this one which is a shame. It's also too bad that this was their last album(over ten years ago now) but at least they went out with a bang.

Thanks to Ricochet for the artist addition.

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