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Артист: Don Caballero Альбом: 2, 1995 Издатель: Touch & Go / TG143cd Жанр: Math-Rock Формат файла: EAC 0.99pb3 / WavPack 4.41.00 / Full Scans (300 dpi) Ссылка: CD 2 clicks Нахождение: eDonkey

Line-Up:
Damon Che (drums)
Ian Williams (guitar)
Mike Banfield (guitar)
Matt Jencik (bass)

TRACKLIST

1. Stupid Puma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4:20 2. Please Tokio, Please This Is Tokio. . . . . . .11:18 3. P, P, P, Antless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3:43 4. Repeat Defender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10:59 5. Dick Suffers Is Furious With You . . . . . . . .9:11 6. Cold Knees (In April). . . . . . . . . . . . . .4:14 7. Rollerblade Success Story. . . . . . . . . . . .4:30 8. No One Gives a Hoot About Faux-Ass Nonsense . .10:43

Review

Don Caballero II is truly a landmark in the history of instrumental rock, an hour-plus work (issued on double vinyl in Europe) issued two years after the Pittsburgh band's brave debut, For Respect. Guitarists Mike Banfield and Ian Williams play at maximum levels of strength and creativity, and the acrobatic drumming of Damon Che is frequently highlight-reel material. Matt Jencik, replacing Pat Morris on bass, stands behind the trio with honor.
The sound is ever more analytic, despite such chaotic surroundings. The various aspects of the music are meditative, like an orchestra made of seasoned instrumentalists. The psychedelic edge so prominent on For Respect has not dissolved, but here it's more a part of a radiant harmonic imagination. The avant-garde extremes of "please tokio, please THIS IS TOKIO" are never pedantic or fanciful, rather they are melodic figures caressed in a trance, pauses, breaks and time changes, reckless fugues and carefully spread out dissonance. Everything peacefully co-exists, with an end to all of the excess somewhere in sight, between the screechings of what sounds like an electric saw at maximum volume, and one colossal distortion that is extended for eternity.
Better still is "Repeat Defender," a party for thin ears that lashes from an exhausted beginning to an interval of supersonic hisses articulated in the most urgent fashion. In the fierce roars that shake "Dick Suffers If Furious With You," to the insinuated counterpoints that cradle "No One Gives A Hoot About FAUX-ASS Nonsense," one hears the echo of Soft Machine and The Nice, absorbed in the brutal noise of our times. There's a lot of erudition in this atonal funk, blues and jazz blend. And it's curious that it surfaces most in brief passages of "Stupid Puma" and "P,P,P, antless," where the searing guitar heat and the body-rocking vibrations tip-toe toward Joe Satriani or Eric Johnson territory. Less clear is the pure abstraction of the reverberating and out of focus chords in "Cold Knees (In April)."
Don Caballero II is more ambitious, sophisticated and incendiary than For Respect, even if some semblance of that album's menacing outlook is lost. The band has coined a form of rock music that has not lost its original lucid appeal, but has buried it under layers and layers of sophisticated playing, in a process that resembles what happened to jazz during its transition from big-band swing music, to bebop and then free jazz. This record's historical importance cannot be overlooked.


Format:
Extraction Program: Exact Audio Copy 0.99pb3
Codec: WavPack 4.41.00
Encoding Options: -hh
Features: Cue, Log & Scans tagged within (use the last version of Mp3 Tag to get extras)
Scans: Full, 300 dpi

Review

Don Caballero II is truly a landmark in the history of instrumental rock, an hour-plus work (issued on double vinyl in Europe) issued two years after the Pittsburgh band's brave debut, For Respect. Guitarists Mike Banfield and Ian Williams play at maximum levels of strength and creativity, and the acrobatic drumming of Damon Che is frequently highlight-reel material. Matt Jencik, replacing Pat Morris on bass, stands behind the trio with honor.
The sound is ever more analytic, despite such chaotic surroundings. The various aspects of the music are meditative, like an orchestra made of seasoned instrumentalists. The psychedelic edge so prominent on For Respect has not dissolved, but here it's more a part of a radiant harmonic imagination. The avant-garde extremes of "please tokio, please THIS IS TOKIO" are never pedantic or fanciful, rather they are melodic figures caressed in a trance, pauses, breaks and time changes, reckless fugues and carefully spread out dissonance. Everything peacefully co-exists, with an end to all of the excess somewhere in sight, between the screechings of what sounds like an electric saw at maximum volume, and one colossal distortion that is extended for eternity.
Better still is "Repeat Defender," a party for thin ears that lashes from an exhausted beginning to an interval of supersonic hisses articulated in the most urgent fashion. In the fierce roars that shake "Dick Suffers If Furious With You," to the insinuated counterpoints that cradle "No One Gives A Hoot About FAUX-ASS Nonsense," one hears the echo of Soft Machine and The Nice, absorbed in the brutal noise of our times. There's a lot of erudition in this atonal funk, blues and jazz blend. And it's curious that it surfaces most in brief passages of "Stupid Puma" and "P,P,P, antless," where the searing guitar heat and the body-rocking vibrations tip-toe toward Joe Satriani or Eric Johnson territory. Less clear is the pure abstraction of the reverberating and out of focus chords in "Cold Knees (In April)."
Don Caballero II is more ambitious, sophisticated and incendiary than For Respect, even if some semblance of that album's menacing outlook is lost. The band has coined a form of rock music that has not lost its original lucid appeal, but has buried it under layers and layers of sophisticated playing, in a process that resembles what happened to jazz during its transition from big-band swing music, to bebop and then free jazz. This record's historical importance cannot be overlooked.


Format:
Extraction Program: Exact Audio Copy 0.99pb3
Codec: WavPack 4.41.00
Encoding Options: -hh
Features: Cue, Log & Scans tagged within (use the last version of Mp3 Tag to get extras)
Scans: Full, 300 dpi

EAC Log

Math-Rock

First time in my life I see music tagged that way. I am a poor ignorant

mathematics-rock

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