| Grex / Live At Home |
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| Album: | Live At Home | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Grex | Added: | 08/2010 | |
| Label: | (No Label Information) | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2011-02-27 | Pull Date: | 2011-05-01 |
| Week Ending: | 24 Apr |
| Airplays: | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 19, 2011: | Bisous Bijoux Tater Corpse | ||||
| Album Review |
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| Moose Reviewed 2011-02-20 | ||
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Grex - Live at Home Low density jazz-folk, dipping into psychedelic wanderings. Two person band (male & female) from Oakland pairs electric guitar with piano or flute or etc. Sparse vocals, quiet & spacey album in general, most tracks do not maintain a consistent form throughout. Neat experimental instrumentation considering all tracks (except #3) recorded live. No FCC ‘s. My picks: 2, 6, 9 1) (1:05) Slow. Breathy and muted flute melody with sparse guitar, can easily stand alone despite labeling as “intro” 2) *(3:13) Mid. Piano & guitar echo each other with rising tempo and intensity. Neat deconstruction of meter mid-song. Vocals only on last 30sec. 3) (4:11) Slow-mid. Looping piano melody overlaid with wandering electric guitar devolves into atonal electric organ chords on top of dissonant guitar riffs. Short vocals in middle of song. 4) (5:25) Slow –mid. Very quiet lead in to :25. Piano loops same conjunct melody with flute, rain-stick sounds. Mostly a relaxing enya-esque song, but an uneasy guitar drifting in and out. 5) (5:39) Mid. A familiar classical riff underscores psychedelic jam-band-style wanderings of this track – just piano and guitar with a few brief verses of oblique harmonies. 6) *(3:25) Mid. An electric version of the classic jazz song of same title, large dynamic swings. 7) (4:21) Slow –mid. Psychedelic flute leads-in to a relatively contained electric guitar lead; scratching, squeaky toys and syncopated rattles provide rhythm. 8) (4:00) Slow. Female vocals - smooth jazz piano and a few surprise guitar entrances that still leave a lot of space. 9) *(7:27) Slow-mid. Most vocal-heavy track on album with breathy harmonies and increased density – quote Bloodhound Gang’s “the roof is on fire” leading into a Hendrix-style wandering guitar solo. 10) (2:31) Slow. Instrumental cover of Lou Reed’s “perfect day” with a short tribute to Star Wars’ theme song snuck in. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Little Me (Intro) | 6. | Autumn Leaves | |||
| 2. | Little Me | 7. | Serious Business | |||
| 3. | Feelin' Squiddy | 8. | Tater Corpse | |||
| 4. | Ankylosaurus Rex | 9. | Perseid | |||
| 5. | Retlaw | 10. | Perfect Day |