The Iridium Controversy

The Iridium Controversy Artist: Birdsongs of the Mesozoic
Label: Cuneiform
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 045775017921
EAN: 0045775017921
ASIN: B0000C0FB1


Release Date: 2003-09-16

The Iridium Controversy


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Tracks:

  1. Primoridal Sludge
  2. The Iridium Controversy: Before
  3. The Iridium Controversy: After
  4. Make The Camera Dance
  5. This Way Out
  6. Lost In The B-Zone
  7. Tectonic Melange
  8. Sherpas On Parade
  9. 100 Years Of Excellence
  10. Race Point
  11. Centrifuge
  12. The Best Of The Mesozoic (Part 1)

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars cool music, but not fo everyone!!.......2006-07-25

To tell you the truth I kind of bought the CD for the cover by Roger Dean, However; it is read neat stuff. As a previous reviewer mentioned its like Stravinsky brought up to date. If you like progressive jazz this album is for you.
If you are not into the real far our scene you probably won't like it. I give it four stars because no matter how good it is it is not the ultimate album for me. I prefer some trance and more mystical directions. The once in while when I want some excellent improvisation I will reach for this album and sit back and listen, but only once in while.

3 out of 5 stars Birdsongs... Sweet! .......2005-01-13

This is my first taste of "Birdsongs" music and I am taken with it. Many Progressive rhythms, elements of jazz, classical and rock. This is instrumental music. Sax, Guitar, Keyboards, Synths are delicate and percussions galore. Song lengths between 3 and 7 minutes in length. Beautiful shifting textures, flowing jazz lines, a little hip-hop beat now and then with a diverse range of percussive instruments. Only four members are listed although five others appear on the album, one of which, Roger Miller, was a former band member. The other four are percussionists.

Fans of classical and jazz music may enjoy this album. At times is reminds me of Bill Brufords Earthworks (first album, at least). Prog-metal fans might have a hard time understanding it. The guitar lines are rich and tasteful, never bombastic, occassionally Holdsworthian.

4 out of 5 stars Stravinsky is listening to it in Mod-A-Go-Go Heaven.......2004-11-19

The previous reviewer wrote a perfect description. I hesitate to call this rock music. It sounds like modern classical music played with electric instruments. With a lot of march rhythm thrown in. But let it be known that it's also eminently cold-blooded in the same way that Stravinsky is cold-blooded. My favorite track is AFTER. The constantly-shifting gothic chord-changes are a lot of fun.

5 out of 5 stars Making You Smarter.......2004-05-04

This is really intelligent music. This album represents the best fusion of Classical Music with Rock that I have ever heard. Yes, it is cerebral and it does challenge you. I have found that if you concentrate on it you will feel your brain working better after you are finished with it. This occurs because it stimulates new neural patterns in your brain - you really have not heard music like this before. It is not Classical it is not Rock. It really is both. And I'm not talking about the pseudo art rock of 70's Genises or Yes. This is the real deal.

5 out of 5 stars Fantastic Modern Prog!.......2004-02-23

Birdsongs is a band with a twenty year history. For me, this is their best CD yet! Traveling through realms of Classical, jazz, prog rock with the wall of sound textures and full instramentation. Birdsongs of the Mesozoic and the Iridium Controversy CD, stands alone and away from the tired prog pack!

As people appreciate when you reference an unknown band to other bands, I will attempt to do so. Birdsongs... however, stands alone, but the musical intellegence might be simular to Renaissance, Neil Ardley, Henry Cow, (Orchestral) ELP (only better!),.. The musical pieces just flow on their own volition. Plenty of time signature changes yet the songs work, and they are NOT abrasively abrupt. The music leaves the listener intregred, reflective and not at all bored.

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