Lunar Crush

Lunar Crush

ASIN: B00000322A

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More adventurous Medeski Martin & Wood fans might want to check out Medeski's 1994 collaboration with Black Rock Coalition guitarist Fiuczynski. Combining funk, heavy metal, and hip-hop elements with 1970s jazz fusion, Lunar Crush is closer in spirit and sound to Miles Davis's On the Corner than the groovy soul-jazz of MMW. Though the two musicians do occasionally veer into self-indulgence (Fiuczynski with his fret-board shredding; Medeski with his wah-wah workouts), the results are surprisingly engaging. It's not for everyone, but fans of Herbie Hancock's Head Hunters period will understand. --Dan Epstein

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"To categorize Lunar Crush," Fiuczynski told Howard Mandel in Down Beat, "I'd have to say it's fusion but it doesn't sound like what's negatively thought of as fusion. I think it's too funky and too emotional, too aggressive." Admittedly created in reference to such spiritually committed early fusion as the Tony Williams Lifetime, the Mahavishnu Orchestra and Jack Johnson-era Miles Davis, Fiuczynski and Medeski bring a genre heretofore deservedly maligned into the '90s with weighty resolve and wild abandon. Assisted by bassist Fima Ephron, drummers Gene Lake and Jojo Mayer, and vocalists Michelle Johnson and Gloria Tropp.

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Lunar Crush - Something Old And Something New

What's So Great About David Fiuczynski?

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Raging Guitar and a Crazy Organ Unite

Raw, dirty grooves beautify a musical tour de force.

Lunar Crush
David Fiuczynski , and John Medeski
Manufacturer: Gramavision
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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More adventurous Medeski Martin & Wood fans might want to check out Medeski's 1994 collaboration with Black Rock Coalition guitarist Fiuczynski. Combining funk, heavy metal, and hip-hop elements with 1970s jazz fusion, Lunar Crush is closer in spirit and sound to Miles Davis's On the Corner than the groovy soul-jazz of MMW. Though the two musicians do occasionally veer into self-indulgence (Fiuczynski with his fret-board shredding; Medeski with his wah-wah workouts), the results are surprisingly engaging. It's not for everyone, but fans of Herbie Hancock's Head Hunters period will understand. --Dan Epstein

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Lunar Crush - Something Old And Something New.......2006-11-05

Some songs on this album are a refreshingly new take on the idea of "funk." However, there is a lot of the old advant-garde styles ala Sonny Sharock, Sun Ra and Pharoh Sanders mixed in. This album may turn off listeners not into free-form jazz. More adventurous listeners will like having this in his or her collection.

What's So Great About David Fiuczynski?.......2006-01-03

"Lunar Crush" is a collaboration between John Medeski (whose music I like) and one of the most God-awful guitarist I've ever heard in my life, David Fiuczynski. This music isn't even worthy of 1 star, because in my eyes, jazz-fusion is a dead style. Jazz has evolved since the early 70s fusion era. Fusion is just a word describing a fusion of different styles of music. This has been done to death! Add the annoying habbits of funk and you got what this album sounds like: uncreative babbling. Anyone with technical ability can sit around and create a bunch of tunes comprised of shred-licks and tremolo wanking, but it takes REAL musicians to create something that is heart-breakingly emotional and painful and at the same time joyous. It's these two sides of the psyche that co-exist together and if you look at music as something that's just about flash and how many notes you can play, you loose the sheer beauty and power of the music. Simplicity and complexity can also be evident in music, but the way these guys are playing on this album, it seems like there isn't anything at all simple or complex. It's just a pure and utter waste of perfectly good CD space. This album is awful and though I love the work of keyboardist/organist John Medeski, one question comes to mind almost immediately: What where you thinking?

I would encourage anyone who loves guitar playing to check out real jazz guitarists like Bill Frisell, Pat Metheny, John Abercrombie, Ben Monder, and John Scofield. I would also like to mention that a guitar tone is very important, in fact, I might wager that it's one of the most important, from another guitarist's perspective, but Fiuczynski's tone is absolutely terrible! It sounds like knives scrapping a chalkboard! My advice for Fiuczynski is loose the tone and the attitude that technical ability is more important then playing with feeling, because they're weighing you down.....BIG TIME.

domewithyourspaceconfrabulator!!.......2000-11-11

if you like freaky, energetic, be-popping, soul-tweakin', mind-expanding music that almost sounds live its so fresh then you MUST own this disc. not for the kenny G or william akermann fan.

Raging Guitar and a Crazy Organ Unite.......1999-10-06

Dave Fiuczynski is the most innovative guitarist to come out after the whole shredding-guitar wanking era. His mixture of funk, rock, blues and jazz is all tied up within a Middle Eastern scale that erupts across the fretboard. I have seen Fuze live in NYC roughly a dozen or more times in the past year and the best representation of his show would have to be "Slow Blues For Fuzy's Mama." You can hear McLaughlin and Vai in his solos. Medeski's sound with the Morg is fat and tubular and when he lays down the intro to "Slow Blues" you can feel the air shake around you. A must have for guitar fans and for those that require their music collection contains something constructive and innovative in the midst of the ridiculous bubble gum pop.

Raw, dirty grooves beautify a musical tour de force........1999-05-16

The opening strains of John Medeski and David Fiuczynski's "Lunar Crush" say it all; Medeski's innate (not that it's easy) keyboard mastery conjures up an earthy and rambunctious line that inevitably yields to the band's screaming entrance, and the song takes off, winding through a nice complex arrangement but never abandoning its pure and natural rhythm, its gut-wrenching power. Fiuczynski plays guitar with a unique harmonic and melodic rhythm that lends the album its engaging and utterly new sound. Medeski, who has never pulled a musical punch and never will, is a true co-leader, challenging and cajoling his colleague without sacrificing an iota of the music at hand. The semi-operatic singing on three of the tracks is simply as bad-ass as it gets, further emphasizing that this album must stand alone. It's not MMW, and it's not the Torsos; Lunar Crush is a moon with which we are not familiar.

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Lunar Crush
David Fiuczynski , and John Medeski
Manufacturer: Wea Corp
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 1994-03-29

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