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Third and best yet from this amazing instrumental, post-Beefheart, avant-technical, improv-core, math-metal, art-damage, punk-rock power trio from Asheville, NC.
Using the simple and classic skeleton of guitar, bass and drums, these three make powerful music that is undeniably 'rock' but is also undeniably much wider in musical influences than what one would imagine in such rock-based work.
For example, the opening song is Remember Rumsfeld at Abu Ghraib; of course we all know what that title...
Don Airey is a first-call keyboard player, probably best known for his work in the hard rock arena with Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Deep Purple, etc. and also into progressive rock and jazz/rock with Jethro Tull, Colosseum II, Gary Moore and others.
This, his first solo album released under his own name, features some big name guests: Gary Moore, Cozy Powell and Colin Blunstone among others.
"As a fan of concept albums, I almost passed on this one based on previous reviews. Now I'm glad I..
"Aka Moon is celebrating. On the occasion of their twenty-five years existence, a twenty-volume overview box Constellations has been released, but also a new album Now .
With this title, Aka Moon, the group around alto saxophonist Fabrizio Cassol, bassist Michel Hatzigeorgiou and drummer Stephane Galland, already indicates what it is all about, namely the present, the here-and-now.
On the new album Now you can hear how the group, to a certain extent, clings to the vast past (for example you...