Double Negative
Reviews
Popcorn
Reviewed 2004-12-13
Reviewed 2004-12-13
Revival of 70s jazz/rock group in the vein of
Soft Machine/early King Crimson/Henry Cow/
Manring Kassin & Darter is as much jazz as rock.
2 of Sun Ra's Arkestra join them, and they
get progressive and brassy. Fresh!
1) Bolero-like background to woodwind chords
w/organ section
2) energetic tasteful freakout over progressive beats
3)* funky brass like early King Crimson
4) smooth, forgettable
5)* fine melodic sax over simple rising backing
6) saxes over jazzy beat/beauty strings/flute jazz
7)** funky Peter Gunn/into netherworld of bush/jazz/
Russian monolog/driving jazz
8)* string minor chamber/bitchin discord/tonal strangeness
9)* fast space/saxes blast/bass-organ duet
10) doo diddly doo fast jazzy
11) drone w/echo flutes/beat comes in, nicety continues
12)* free range sax over solid rhythm section
13) free jazz?
14) piano w/emotional woodwinds, builds/jazzy Araby
15) a little Chicago, jazzed up
16) sax melody over Genesis like
17) church organ choir/more Chicago
Soft Machine/early King Crimson/Henry Cow/
Manring Kassin & Darter is as much jazz as rock.
2 of Sun Ra's Arkestra join them, and they
get progressive and brassy. Fresh!
1) Bolero-like background to woodwind chords
w/organ section
2) energetic tasteful freakout over progressive beats
3)* funky brass like early King Crimson
4) smooth, forgettable
5)* fine melodic sax over simple rising backing
6) saxes over jazzy beat/beauty strings/flute jazz
7)** funky Peter Gunn/into netherworld of bush/jazz/
Russian monolog/driving jazz
8)* string minor chamber/bitchin discord/tonal strangeness
9)* fast space/saxes blast/bass-organ duet
10) doo diddly doo fast jazzy
11) drone w/echo flutes/beat comes in, nicety continues
12)* free range sax over solid rhythm section
13) free jazz?
14) piano w/emotional woodwinds, builds/jazzy Araby
15) a little Chicago, jazzed up
16) sax melody over Genesis like
17) church organ choir/more Chicago
Recent airplay
Exquisite Corpse
Midnight Meanderings — Feb 04, 2005
Childhood's End
Afropean Gamut — Jan 26, 2005
Choombachang
Exquisite Corpse
Afropean Gamut — Jan 19, 2005
Exquisite Corpse
Blue Corn — Jan 13, 2005
Choombachang
AfroEuro — Jan 10, 2005
Charting
2004-12-19 — 2005-02-18
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Feb 6 | 1 |
| Jan 30 | 1 |
| Jan 23 | 2 |
| Jan 16 | 2 |
| Jan 9 | 2 |
| Jan 2 | 1 |
| Dec 26 | 2 |
Track listing
| 1. | The Highlands | ||
| 2. | Writing Blind | ||
| 3. | Choombachang | ||
| 4. | The Ugly Buttling | ||
| 5. | The Man in the Skin-Painted | ||
| 6. | Childhood's End | ||
| 7. | Exquisite Corpse | ||
| 8. | They Come on Unknown Heights | ||
| 9. | Cat's Game | ||
| 10. | Stethorus Punctum | ||
| 11. | Dawning Star | ||
| 12. | 5:00 Shadow | ||
| 13. | Metropolis | ||
| 14. | Angel From Lebanon | ||
| 15. | Frozen Charlotte | ||
| 16. | Maya | ||
| 17. | The Two Georges |