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Elm City Guitar Quartet + 3
Crash
Avant
Improv Rock!
Crash is the new CD from the Elm City Guitar Quartet +3
One Night. Four
Electric Guitars on equal footings. Drums offer pithy comments or
urgent demands. Reeds and accordion hold their own above and
below the fray. Never Ending biblio aural
bliss.
There is art, there
is noise. Rhythm and mellowdeee among the spontaneity. The
deconstruction of a perfect rock song
starts it up, moving to touch on New Orleans and London with Schoenberg
lurking in the
shadows. Some hopeful cynicism eventually
bids you goodnight among the comically bitter, wondering if they are
here to
amuse, that’s it.
There are no obvious words to these
songs, but words are everywhere in the mix.
Crash. A sudden loud noise, a
financial meltdown, a computer going down, a much needed rest, an
unwelcome
guest, fabric for book binding, a low after a high, a cymbal.
Crash.
Kappa is the party at the end of the story of the adventures in the
forest. The Audacity of Diogenes is a
timely title with post-post references to spare. One of the
guitars remains agreeably tacit as
the kneedle comes out for 3+3+1 on the train.
Serious
Sonic
Soul
Assault.
Dig
Recorded Live at
Never Ending Books. December 6, 2008
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The
Elm
City
Guitar
Quartet grew out of the New Haven Improvisers
Collective. NHIC is a far-reaching collective of
creative musicians forming into a particular group to play particular
music in a particular moment.
NHIC
is
interaction,
conflict, and
harmony.
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Here
are
a
few words
written abut NHIC and its music.
The
New
Haven
Improvisers Collective is a
catalytic force in New Haven's
burgeoning music scene
-
Owen
McNally,
The Hartford Courant
Inspired
collective
intelligence
-
Grego
Applegate Edwards, Cadence Magazine
Artsy
modern-musical
fun.
-
Craig
Matsumoto, KZSU, Stanford California
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Track List
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1)
You
Wouldn't
Understand (Gorry) |
3:54
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2)
Marching
Out
(Gogola)
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7:34 |
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3)
The
Audacity
of
Diogenes (Gorry) |
4:41 |
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4)
1924
British
Newspaper
Curse (Cedrone) |
9:15 |
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5)
Kappa
(Zieminski)
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4:57
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6)
Friendship
as
a Weapon (Cedrone)
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5:32
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7)
Dueling
Dual
Duos (Cedrone, Gorry)
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2:39
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8)
Is
it
Not ( J. Venter)
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4:02
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9)
Angry
Clowns
( J. Venter) |
2:30
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