|
Conundrum:
TEA |
|||
|
|||
Reviews "This engaging body of work arranged, written and mixed by musical wunderkind Cyrus Sink, is the most fertile material I've heard since the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Fueled by massive waves of rhythm (this is the way rhythm is spelled and played!), Sink and friends Yuri Zbitnoff, and Robert Pehlke take the listener on a thrilling safari of clicks clangs and bangs while parachutes of melody and musical sound bytes drop throug the canopy. The result is a coalition of seductive patterns and arrangements that intoxicates the unassuming audiophile in much the same way a natural opiate would. Completely original and totally void of all restrictions, Conundrum's "Tea" is a work for all time. Outstanding!" - Metronome Magazine, August 1999 "Coundrum are a former studio project who've moved into the clubs in support of their new CD "Tea" .Their mix of electronics, folkloric percussion (think West Africa and Bali), funk, vocals, electric guitar, and horns conjures up a 90's up dating of 70's Miles, Curtis Mayfield blaxploitation soundtracks and the best of jazz-rock fusiobn experimentation." - The Boston Pheonix, Sept. 24, 1999 "It follows that the band that arms itself with the technology to crank out such a stellar and visionary album would be the one that asks for a revolution in the local music scene. Change like that does not offer comfort. Consider this: the thought of "bringing a pop aesthetic to something that is a little bit out there musically" sounds like a concept doomed for failure, an impossible task. This is the album which accomplishes just that."Conundrum's "TEA" whirls horns, guitars,basses, ethnic instruments, and "junk" into a rich organic maelstrom shocked through with 70's funk, African swagger, Jazz harmony, Afro-Cuban rhythmic conception. Conundrum has an unbelievable musical vocabulary. Whatever the music might require doesn't get restrained. Comfortable with the unconventional, Conundrum welcomes the unusual, in fact they flourish in it." - Northeast Performer, August 1998 (Jonathan Babu) "Conundrum is everyrhing and nothing I expected. The groove is a dark, organic blend of acid jazz, world beat, bebop, electronic , urban, and textural ambience that will make your hair stand on end. The album itself seems to play out like the ultimate after hours loft party. A couple of annonymous marimba players start to jam in the corner and Bill Frisell picks up his guitar. Mingus takes the joint out of Tony Wiliams hand as they lay down the groove. Jim Capaldi and Tito Puente stumble out of the closet and start playing percussion while Tricky and Joan Baez trade lines of poetry. Jan Hammer and DJ Shadow are trading synth/turntable licks.Hendrix starts to come to and Chick Corea puts down his Dianetics handbook long enough to contribute some electric piano. Marley rolls another one and puts some more reverb on John Cale's viola, while Wes Montgomery finds a fresh e-string for Curtis Mayfield. As the mood starts to wane in the further wee hours, a half sleeping Dick Dale starts a new slow groove with Bootsy as Tracey Thorne starts to croon a soulful duet with Anete Kramer. Joao Gilberto and Nick Saloman do this Afro-Cuban jam with Mickey Hart. Of course Ray Cooper is holding a tamborine. John Zorn walks in te room, Miles mumbles something unintelligible to him as he picks up his horn. Coltrane and Rahsaan Roland Kirk trade licks while waiting for their turns at the bathroom. The sun comes up as the mariachi band comes in to warm up. They join in the sonic orgy as Mama Cass and ricky ricardo sing a duet supported by the cast of Fiddler on the Roof and the Drums of Makeburo, who are still having their food fight with the few belly dancers they saw giggling at them. The police kick everyone out, the music fades, and my cd player stops. Cool." - The Noise, June 1998 (Joel Simches) |
Free mp3 music downloads
01.CourtAtAlhambraRemix.mp3 02.JokoRemix.mp3 03.InSeachOfWaterRemix.mp3 04.KolaperbirRemix.mp3 05.TheSerpent.mp3 06.Invocation2.mp3 Get a CD of this music at cdbaby.com All songs copyright 2002 Cosmic Cartel. For private use only. Arranged and produced by Cyrus Sink Recorded, mixed and mastered by Cyrus Sink and Bob Fogvalley. Cyrus Sink: Basses, guitars, Fender Rhodes, clavinet, Farfisa, keyboards, balaphone, vocals, toy violin, melodica fluthes, percussion, drums, samples. Robert Pehlke: Talking drum, udu, percussion, Fender Rhodes on Alhambra, berimbau, trumpet, flute and piano on Joko. Yuri Zbitnoff: drums, sarong, balaphone, fire vent, aquaharp, car parts, vocals, percussion. Ed Brainerd: Trumpet solo on In Search of Water. Raqib Hasaan: Shenai on Invocation. Timo Shanko: Tenor sax on Invocation. Dave Pek: Baritone and tenor sax, clarinet and bass clarinet on Invocation. N E X T >> |
||