Mempbeak

I hadn't seen this mentioned here yet.  From Ear-Rational:

http://www.ear-rational.com/detail.php?id=91427

Mumpbeak - Mumpbeak CD (Rarenoise Records) [rnr0352] $14.75
MUMPBEAK (ROY POWELL / BILL LASWELL / SHANIR EZRA BLUMENKRANTZ / LORENZO 
FELICIATI / TONY LEVIN / PAT MASTELOTTO.

English-born but norwegian resident pianist/keyboard player/organist Roy 
Powell, whose recent releases on RareNoiseRecords count two full length 
albums with Naked Truth (with Lorenzo Feliciati and Pat Mastelotto) and 
his organ trio InterStatic with Jacob Young and Jarle Vespestad, creates 
astonishing near-symphonic progressive rock-fuelled compositions in 
MUMPBEAK.

Using a heavily modified set of pedals and clavinet, he successfully fuses 
the sound and textures of organ, keyboards and touch-guitar into a dark, 
relentless sonic maelstroem, at times reminiscent of King Crimson, Rush 
and Stickmen. He is supported in this endeavour by a four magnificent bass 
players, Bill Laswell, Shanir Blumenkrantz, Lorenzo Feliciati and Tony 
Levin, all overdubbed by Laswell himself and by master King Crimson and 
Naked Truth drummer Pat Mastelotto.

Thick and fast microtonal keyboard streams dance and wrestle with babelic 
bass voicings carried forward by relentless grooves and oblique drum 
fills; odd time signatures so typical of Progressive rock are here coated 
by an unheard-of gluttonous lick of bass, as they dance to the tune of and 
in support of the wonderful keyboard (guitar-like) melodic lines.

This album, recorded in Norway, Texas and New Jersey and mixed by Bill 
Laswell in New Jersey, marks the first time Bill Laswell can be heard 
playing with King Crimson alumni Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto. (Roy 
Powell - modified clavinet/touch guitar / Bill Laswell, Shanir Ezra 
Blumenktrantz, Lorenzo Feliciati, Tony Levin - electric basses (on 
different tracks, but Bill Laswell, overdubbing across all tracks) / Pat 
Mastelotto - drums)










Brian



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