Showa Blues - Music

There Are At Least Two Groups Called Cro Magnon.
1. CRO MAGNON Define Their Style As "urban Chamber" With Folk Influences. With Faint Echoes Of Early ART ZOYD MIRIODOR UNIVERS ZERO And JULVERNE A Weird Early 80's Belgian Band That Blended Rag Time Old Jazz Tunes And Lounge Music Of The 19th Century Their Sound Draws On Classical Music And Also A Bit On Jazz Folk And Rock. They Are Essentially Drum Less But Still Rhythmically Very Powerful. The Quintet Have Two Albums To Their Credit Released In 1992 And 1997 Respectively. "Zapp!" With Its Revolutionary Rhythms Central/Eastern European Flavour Classical Bits And Unusual Harmonies Will Certainly Take You Very Very Far Into Unexplored Territories. Call It Acoustic Eclectic Atomic Or Electric It Is At Times Funny And Intense At Other Times Surprisingly Relaxing. "Bull?" Their Second Album Is More Dynamic And Even More Unique. With One Foot In The Classical World And The Other In Urban Arrhythmia Its Compositions Are Well Worked Out And Played Very Spontaneously It Also Features Cello Snare Drums Trumpet French Horn And Clarinet. As One Smart Alec Put It It's Advisable To Listen To These Albums 1/3 At A Time For Fear Of Sonic Disorientation No Doubt . If You're Already A Fan Of ART ZOYD UNIVERS ZERO Or The PENGUIN CAFÉ ORCHESTRA This Band Will Certainly Put A Smile On Your Face. Lise HIBOU CANADA 2. Haley Fohr Circuit Des Yeux And Katie Leming Bird Again And Again You Feel Mislead By Us. We Are Sorry But The Pattern Is Hard To Conduct Precisely And In Such Frequent Cycles. It Was When We First Got Our Periods That We Started To Hate How We Had Both Been Conformed By Other Women And Our Fathers. It Was Like Sucking On Pennies. But We Are Serious About What We Are Telling You Here. It's Like Reaching Into A Tree And Pulling Out An Oddly Shaped Fruit. Our Hands Have Grown Ten Inches In The Past Three Years And We Have Finally Found A Spoon Lafayette Indiana’s Katie Leming And Haley Fohr Form Cro Magnon Perhaps The Only “band” On The Record As Most Of The Women Here Are Solo Entities . This Convergence Couldn’t Be More Unique As On XXperiments They Both Contribute As Themselves Too—Katie’s Bird And Haley’s Circuits De Yeux—revealing Their More Intimate Personalities. As Cro Magnon On “Groundline ” And Most Recently On Their Debut 7-Inch They Spar With Each Other In Craggy Downer Craters. On “A Hole ” They Attack Their Instruments Which Include Kitchenware Blunt Like Cavemen Assembling A Hardcore Shaggs If Conducted By Pol Pot. Then Again They Exchange Spirit On The B-Side Billowing Ethereal Drone That Spooks As Much As It Soothes. Maybe It’s Beginner’s Luck But In Talking With Them About Their Future It’s Hard Not To Anticipate Their Next “phase.” ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-
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