UNSETTLED SCORES (TRIBUTE TO CUNEIFORM BANDS)

Various Artists (Tributes)

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progadicto

Ok, another compilation but this one have some really great stuff.

Chuck Vrtacek has the idea to make a compilation with the most important artists/bands who works in Cuneiform Records (you know, almost pure RIO, Canterbury, weird fusion and avant garde). A producer took the idea and made it real so in this two CD's you will find a lot of great bands but playing the songs of the other band. For example, "The True Wheelbase / Coco Boudakian" originally on Birdsongs of Mesozoic "Faultline" is covered by Forever Einstein (the band leaded by Mr. Vrtacek)...

So, the album has great surprises like the jazzy cover of Kit Watkins and Coco Roussel (HAppy the Man) on "Hobart Got Burned" by The Muffins; members of Doctor Nerve and Univers Zero togehter in a kind of "mega-band"; the soft and exquisite band Philarmonie covering "Transsiberien" originally played by Miriodor (really great cover, minimalist perhaps beautiful); legendary Hugh Hopper covering a song by Doctor Nerve; Miriodor making an strange medley on songs by Univers Zero and Present; Japanese band Happy Family -in their own particular and heavy style- making a cover on Bulgarian Flying Spirit Dances by Daniel Denis; exceptional PFS playing a song by Miriodor and the list copntinues...

The strenght of this album is precisely the diferent and particular style of each band. Birdsongs, Muffins, Volapuk, Happy Family, Piero Milesi amongst others, keep their own styles and make of every cover almost a new piece. Maybe is an excellent way to introduce anybody into the strange world of avant garde music but if you are a fan of that genre (and fusion, Canterbury, RIO...) maybe the album doesn't have too much surprises. Anyway, I think it's a necessary piece to know more about good music in the late 15 years...

progadicto | 4/5 | 2006-5-18

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