The Stolen Bicycle

The Stolen Bicycle Artist: Boud Deun
Label: Cuneiform
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 045775011127
EAN: 0045775011127
ASIN: B00000DAGI


Release Date: 1998-09-08

The Stolen Bicycle


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Tracks:

  1. Waterford
  2. Ralis
  3. Churches: Belfast
  4. Churches: Saints
  5. Churches: Cotton's Sermon
  6. Churches: No River Deserves A King
  7. Churches: Ten Pence/Bridges
  8. Churches: A Terrible Accident
  9. Churches: Orlando/Jacks
  10. Churches: Burnsville
  11. Churches: The Last Of A Thousand Days
  12. Churches: A Famous Rabbit
  13. Churches: Lantern Effect
  14. Churches: Desperate Alber Sloop
  15. Churches: Train, Rain, Zero
  16. Churches: A Horseshoe Invasion/A Church In York
  17. Broken Spokes
  18. Two Words

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars This music DEMANDS your attention. .......2006-07-18

This is not background music. I mean, you could paint your living room with this blasting in the background because your mind is doing little else; or it's also great for driving that open country road just a little bit fast with the windows down. But you won't be able to read a book with it on, nor will you be able to enjoy a nice glass of wine with your sweetie when this is clamoring to break out of your speakers.

Boud Deun (pronounced "booed DEE-un") excels at composing and playing some very complex instrumental prog rock/jazz fusion music. It is not for the faint of heart. Frequently compared to Mahavishnu Orchestra and Red-era King Crimson, they really have a sound all their own - a sound filled with energy, muscle, adventure and intensity, along with occasional slower breaks to help you catch your breath.

Both Shawn Persinger (guitar) and Greg Hiser (violin) are virtuosic performers, and share equally in the lead lines of their compositions. I hear much more violin here than with any M.O. or K.C. recording. Perhaps closer to the Dixie Dregs sound at times, but the Dregs were rarely this consistently frenetic (or this dissonant, either). Matt Eiland plays some great bass guitar to offer just the right amount of polyphony. Needless to say, the drumming of Rocky Cancelose is intricate and feisty.

"Stolen Bicycle" is made up of 18 tracks, most of which are only 3-4 minutes long. The tracks burn, rip, glide, swerve and swing into ever-changing territory. You will not find as many melodic hooks in their music as with some other bands of their ilk. They focus more on technical proficiency, much as did the baroque music of J.S. Bach's day (only harder and electric...and lots more odd meters!). Still, the music is both intelligent and fun - few bands can pull that off successfully!

Why do the most talented performers tend to go unnoticed? I suspect that this album and its immediate predecessor "Astronomy Made Easy" will some day be known as some of the very top instrumental rock/jazz fusion music ever recorded. Get on the inside track. Listen to Boud Deun today.

I value interesting music that is played and recorded well. This cd's rating was based on:
Music quality = 9/10; Performance = 9.5/10; Production = 9/10; CD length = 10/10.
Overall score weighted on my proprietary scale = 9.2 ("4-1/2 stars")

3 out of 5 stars If 70s King Crimson played only instrumentals...........2003-05-26

Imagine the mid-70s King Crimson lineup of Fripp-Cross-Wetton-Bruford playing an album of instrumentals, and you will have a pretty good idea of what this album sounds like. There are plenty of guitar and violin excursions, and the rhythm section are very good in their own right. It's a good sound, and entertaining to listen to, but the tracks are not distinctive and after a while a sameness sets in. Of the 18 tracks, 16 are grouped together under the title "Churches". My favorite tracks are "Ralis", "Ten Pence", "Burnsville", "A Famous Rabbit", and "Train, Rain, Zero". Most of the tracks are less than four minutes long, so nothing overstays its welcome. While the album as a whole is rock, the last two cuts, "Broken Spokes" and "Two Words", veer firmly into jazz, though "Broken Spokes" turns into a rock jam session halfway through. To me, this is a 3-1/2 star album, but if you're a big fusion (or King Crimson) fan, you may give it a higher rating.

(1=poor 2=mediocre 3=pretty good 4=very good 5=phenomenal)

5 out of 5 stars One of the Great Recordings of Progressive Music.......2002-02-25

This album is simply one of the best recordings made by a "rock" group (hard to categorize!), ever. Very original compositional work, with wonderful, virtuosic performances from each of the members. It is a tragedy that this group is no longer together. Their other recordings are excellent as well, but this one is the gem.

4 out of 5 stars

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