Monder, Ben / Oceana
Album: | Oceana | Collection: | Jazz | |
Artist: | Monder, Ben | Added: | Oct 2005 | |
Label: | Sunnyside Communications |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2005-10-30 | Pull Date: | 2006-01-01 | Charts: | Jazz |
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Week Ending: | Dec 25 | Dec 18 | Nov 27 | Nov 20 | Nov 13 | Nov 6 |
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Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Aug 25, 2006: | Memory Select
Oceana |
4. | Nov 24, 2005: | Trip Over (Athertonian) Bloodstains
Rooms Of Light |
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2. | Dec 23, 2005: | Memory Select
Rooms Of Light |
5. | Nov 18, 2005: | Memory Select
Oceana |
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3. | Dec 16, 2005: | Memory Select
Oceana |
6. | Nov 18, 2005: | beat.net chapter 26.0: winter
Still Motion |
Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2005-11-03
Reviewed 2005-11-03
Jazzy guitar with unusual twists. Monder plays a fast, dense style that's at once easy on the ears and sometimes hard to follow -- at his best, his stuff is gorgeously confusing (track 3). He also packs some more conventional tricks, such as the Americana-infused solo on #1 or the rock turns on #6, but there's not much here that you would classify as mainstream jazz guitar.
Tracks 1 and 5 are solo guitar. 3,4,6,7 add drums and bass for a nice trio setting. Theo Bleckman contributes atmospheric wordless vocals on most tracks.
1- Acoustic solo. Rapid fingerpicking; fast tumbling arpeggios
2- Choral-sounding vocal interlude
3- Fast-paced track packed with long, tangly waves of guitar. Dreamy, with an incongruous drum solo near the end.
4- Tumbling mid/fast melody, close to conventional jazz
5- Electric solo. Gentle chiming with dissonant and vaguely disturbing chords. Playful or dark, depends on your mood.
6- Grinding rock guitar, a dark prog sound. Gets gentler later on.
7- Delicate, slow
Tracks 1 and 5 are solo guitar. 3,4,6,7 add drums and bass for a nice trio setting. Theo Bleckman contributes atmospheric wordless vocals on most tracks.
1- Acoustic solo. Rapid fingerpicking; fast tumbling arpeggios
2- Choral-sounding vocal interlude
3- Fast-paced track packed with long, tangly waves of guitar. Dreamy, with an incongruous drum solo near the end.
4- Tumbling mid/fast melody, close to conventional jazz
5- Electric solo. Gentle chiming with dissonant and vaguely disturbing chords. Playful or dark, depends on your mood.
6- Grinding rock guitar, a dark prog sound. Gets gentler later on.
7- Delicate, slow
Track Listing
1. | Still Motion | 5. | Double Sun | |||
2. | Light | 6. | Rooms Of Light | |||
3. | Oceana | 7. | Spectre | |||
4. | Echolalia | . |