Double Negative

General | Dec 2004

Reviews

Popcorn
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

Recent airplay

Exquisite Corpse
Midnight MeanderingsFeb 04, 2005
Childhood's End
Afropean GamutJan 26, 2005
Exquisite Corpse
Afropean GamutJan 19, 2005
Exquisite Corpse
Blue CornJan 13, 2005
Choombachang
AfroEuroJan 10, 2005

Charting

2004-12-19 — 2005-02-18
Week EndingAirplays
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