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| Out Today! Praxis & Barton Rage Releases on M.O.D. Technologies M.O.D. TECHNOLOGIES ADDS TWO ALBUMS TO ITS INCUNABULA DIGITAL SERIES BY PRAXIS & Barton Rage / Bill Laswell . PRAXIS Sound Virus Buckethead | Bill Laswell | Brain with John Zorn, Mick Harris, Yamatsuka Eye AVAILABLE JUNE 30, 2015 AS HI-RES DIGITAL DOWNLOAD ONLINE AND VIA WWW.MOD-TECHNOLOGIES.COM Post modern super group with an ever changing line-up. Mutant Metal, Noise, Dub and beyond... The core group of virtuoso guitar shredder Buckethead, futurist bassist / producer Bill Laswell and drummer Brain (Guns N' Roses, Primus, Godflesh, Tom Waits) is joined here by legendary composer / saxophonist John Zorn, Mick Harris, (Napalm Death, Scorn, Painkiller) and Yamatsuka Eye (Boredoms). Restored, enhanced, edited and remastered from original recordings. Intense, dark, humorous and virtuosic. An uncompromising ride. Play it loud! TRACKS 1. Suspension 2:22 2. Warcraft Triad 9:15 3. Skull Crack Cathedral 4:16 4. Inferno 9.23 5. Low Time Machine 4:16 6. Stronghold 1:35 7. Turbine 6:45 8. Nine 3:17 BARTON RAGE / BILL LASWELL Realms I AVAILABLE JUNE 30, 2015 AS HI-RES DIGITAL DOWNLOAD ONLINE AND VIA WWW.MOD-TECHNOLOGIES.COM The "Realm" project is a concept series of albums aimed at connecting ideas that revolutionized popular music from the 80s and 90s onward - involving genres such as Hip Hop, Ambient and Drum & Bass, coupled with contemporary extensions expressed in styles such as Future Jazz, Electronica, Dub Step, etc. The primary philosophy driving this series is to create singular identities within each album. Each work is crafted with the unique sound and style of artists who have created shape-shifting music, as well as partnerships with modern contributors. The first album, "Realm I, " was made in collaboration with renowned producer and musician Bill Laswell, whose groundbreaking work can be heard across music's conventional stylistic boundaries. TRACKS 1. Mater 8:12 2. Waters of Mirage 9:29 3. Triad Seer 8:27 4. Seraphim 8:00 5. Beyond the Abyss 7:42 6. Nama 7:47 ABOUT BARTON RAGE Barton Rage (born on Dec. 8, 1982) is a guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, composer/arranger & producer. His music draws upon many different genres, mainly avant-garde and future jazz, but also funk, fusion, metal, world, classical, reggae, drum 'n' bass, dub, and ambient music. He incorporates diverse styles to explore open minded ways of expression in harmonic, melodic and rhythmic development. His composing methods focus on intuitive approach to sound and dynamics in music as a whole, aiming at creating a self existing esthetic sound flow experience in each work. Rage's music can be characterized as morphing sounds and melodic noises of not clearly distinguishable electronic and acoustic instruments. Gradual transformation of textures into clear melodies, "alien" sounding improvisation or rich spheric background sounds, play a big role in an emotional development of each song. Also rhythmic grooves in melodic instruments as well as drum and percussive instruments undergo a metric mutation between chaotic and steady beats - chaos within order, and order within chaos... http://bartonrage.com write your comments about the article :: © 2015 Jazz News :: home page |