StereoNucleosis

StereoNucleosis Artist: Wertico
Label: A440 Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 821254403627
EAN: 0821254403627
ASIN: B0001Z3U4M


Release Date: 2004-04-27

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Tracks:

  1. Corner Conversation
  2. We Needed The Rain
  3. Somewhere In Between
  4. Desert Sky
  5. First, Bass
  6. The Eleventh Hour
  7. You Can Get There From Here
  8. What Would The World Be
  9. 30 Dbs Below Zero
  10. Almost Sixteen
  11. Down And Out On The Farm
  12. Twisted Hoedown
  13. Bonus Track 1

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Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars College percussion ensemble stuff.......2005-01-12

Having hung out with experimental percussion groups at Cal San Diego and Cal State Hayward,I find this is pretty much influenced by Stockhausen and Varese( Ionization) percussive type things.

Does it work? It depends.I feel that it needs to be more seemless and needs to transistion better between the percussive effects and the rest of the group.

It's a nice try,but it leaves me cold most of the time.
I would not reccommend to anybody but hard core college musicians.

More of an academic musing than anything else.

Doesn't work for me.

4 out of 5 stars Powerful, bombastic, slightly cheesy . . ........2004-11-14

. . . but overall, quite affecting. Definitely one of the better fusion albums around, especially when compared to bland efforts such as Andy Summers's latest (Earth + Sky).

No matter what one thinks of this genre--not one of my favorites--it must be admitted that this is a killer band. Leader Wertico has quite an arsenal of moves on drums and percussion; John Molder knows the blues ("The Eleventh Hour") and plays up quite a storm on electric guitar, plus lays down some very tasty acoustic licks ("What Would the World Be"); Eric Hochberg gets a lot out of his double-bass (check out his solo number, "First, Bass"), sounding not unlike Miroslav Vitous; Brian Peters shines on a variety of string instruments, including fretless bass, violin, electric guitar, and Ebow; and Barbara Wertico deftly handles an impressive array of keyboards.

Together, they craft a tough-minded, generally rockin' mixture of jazz, blues, folk, country, and rock stylings. Favorites include "We Needed the Rain," a frenetic, almost New Wave-sounding number, the aforementioned deep-delved blues, "The Eleventh Hour," the artlessly affecting, gorgeous ballad, "What Would the World Be," and especially the Crazy Horse-ish rocker "Almost Sixteen," with is odd time signature, soulful worldless vocals, and way bloozy e-guitar solo.

Nothing revolutionary here, but a very creditable outing in a genre filled with mail-in-your-chops playing and stale, isipid, cliche-ridden muzak.

Fast becoming a left-field favorite, and definitely worth checking out.

4 and 1/2 stars.

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