| # | Artist | Song (click to play) | Album | Year | CD label | My Gnosis Rating |
| 1 | Dixie Dregs | Peaches en Regalia | California Screamin' | 2000 | Zebra Records | 10 |
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California Screamin' is a new live album featuring many classic songs from
the early years, as well as a couple of cover songs, which include
"Peaches en Regalia" (Zappa) and "Jessica" (Allman Brothers). This CD
is a good listen, but, does not add much new to the repertoire of past
Dregs releases.
The Dregs Steve Morse Home Page | ||||||
| 2 | Pseudo Buddha | Evening Prayer | Motive | 2000 | Uncle Buzz Records | 10 |
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Pseudo Buddha are a new band blending space music with psychedelic and
eastern sounds in an improvisational setting. In many respects the band
sound similar to the Swedish band In The Labyrinth, especially in the
extensive use of the harmonic minor scale in order to achieve an eastern
sounding melodic lines.
Pseudo Buddha Uncle Buzz Records | ||||||
| 3 | Dave Kerman - 5 UU's | First Person Jocular | Regarding Purgatories | 2000 | Cuneiform | 12 (Mike's) |
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"The latest 5UU's album also acts as a Dave Kerman solo album, and continues
in the fine tradition of avant-rock whose threads meet here from Thinking
Plague, Present, U Totem and earlier 5UU's albums. Kerman creates a unique
tension on this album, one that gathers all these influences and directions
and creates something quite different, an approach that concentrates as much
on the textural space of the music as on the dissonant and unusual
compositional style." - Mike McLatchey
Dave Kerman / 5uu's | ||||||
| 4 | Jeff Pearce | To the Shores of Heaven | To the Shores of Heaven | 2000 | Hypnos | 13 (Mike's) |
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"Creating music entirely from a guitar and effects, Jeff Pearce has become
one of ambient music's premiere names. Pearce expands the possibilities of
the instrument by creating sounds that almost defy that they originate from
strings. He masters both subtlety and poignancy on this, his most recent and
finest album, a journey through many moods and textures." - Mike McLatchey
Jeff Pearce / Hypnos | ||||||
| 5 | Escapade | Singe | Due To A Faulty Premonition | 1999 | Mother West | 11 |
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Excellent improvisational space rock from NYC. The music is right at home
alongside the Cosmic Jokers and other early Krautrock bands like
Ash Ra Tempel and early Tangerine Dream. Of the 3 albums (of 5) that I have
heard by Escapade, this is the best. The music is completely instrumental and
floats through a series of well-crafted soundscapes.
Escapade Mother West | ||||||
| 6 | White Willow | The Crucible | Sacrament | 2000 | Laser's Edge | 10 (Mike's) |
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"The latest album by Norwegian Jacob Holm-Lupo's project is likely his
finest, bringing to the table a more assured compositional skill, lavish
arrangements and a stronger production. The music is still in a scandinavian
symphonic rock style fronted by female vocals and stretches along a wide
dynamic range, with lots of keyboards, guitars and flute. Certainly an
essential purchase for symphonic rock fans." - Mike McLatchey
Weirdglow: Official White Willow Home Page Laser's Edge | ||||||