Magnasparagus
"Magnasparagus"(OE060)
1. the year of the quake
2. feather elsewhere --click for MP3
3. eggshells for breakfast
4. alaskan sun
5. water church --click for MP3
sounds from Blawenburg, NJ 11/00
steve zimmerman
kerry jorgensen
chris czarnik
robert perry
now how about some reviews!
MAGNASPARAGUS "Same title" ( Orange entropy records )
Beneath this strange name, is hidden one of the most dissonant space noise band around today. Their music lead you to a realm where improvisation, sounds, distortion and madness give birth to one of the most hallucinating projects.
Magnasparagus or the space chaos itself, their music is deeply associated with improvisation but they got a more dissonant approach of this kind of music ( "The year of the quake", "Alaskan sun" ). Sometimes, they walk on the noise edge where trippy sounds come to your ears. They got an experimental touch close to Volcano the bear in the way they approached their music ( "Eggshells for breakfast "). As if atoms collide, their noises, chaotic sounds, space induced keyboards parts and guitar distortion surrounds the listeners to create a delightful noisy symphony.
Keyboards are strongly hypnotizing ( "Feather elsewhere" ) and expands the musical territory of Magnasparagus to some distorded lounge musics. The leading force of the band is this capacity to drag the listeners off some news soundscapes. Magnasparagus is perfect for the listeners that are always searching for new trippy experiences. Let sounds enter your cells !!!(ZOOPALOOP)
Magnasparagus - "s/t" ——This is 43-minutes of live improvised space-psyche jams recorded by a guitar/drums/bass/synth combo in
Nov. of 2000 in Blawenburg, NJ, former home-state of Steve Zimmerman's Orange Entropy label, now relocated to SoCal. (See Aural
Innovations #14 Jan 2001 for the review of a related project, Dreampipe's "Nursery Fruit History" EP). Here Steve and company produce
a concoction whose musical quality is fairly consistent, though the recording is closer to a sound-board tape than a mastered live album
and there are places where tracks stop off abruptly mid-beat. Perhaps it's best to view this as a demo for more professional recordings to
come.
The album begins with "The Year of the Quake", an extremely loose avant-space/psyche jam somewhat reminiscent of Escapade,
which barely "holds together" but is fairly freaky. Towards the end the drums finally begin to settle into a beat before the sound drops
out completely and track 2 begins, picking up on the same beat but obviously from a different recording source or session. It's a 2-3
minute noodle track which towards the end concedes a fairly amateurish organ riff which sounds like me hammering my parents' rickety
old basement organ at the age of 9. But then it's really just an intro to the following track, "Eggshells for Breakfast"--the album's "epic",
if you will, which again features the Roland synth-organ as lead instrument. Here the guy gets totally freaked out and launches all kinds
of aggressive, brain-damage synth tones. I also like how the bassist moves things along with his wicked and grungey runs, which again
reminded me a bit of Escapade. Things are somewhat suspended for a time in the midst of wavering synth and noisey guitar before
culmitating in a segment of beautifully melodic high-in-your-head organ moves. Following is "Alaskan Sun", more like "Eggshells" but
less erratic, with a good stew of the band's four instrumental components. The synth gets pretty high, but the real highlight is later in the
piece where the guitar starts to weep and wail in the cosmos.
The final two tracks are untitled. The first is a noodle track, which might be interesting, but is scarred by the faulty sound which
switches between stereo and mono at random. Track #7 is much better with a nice doomy bass-line setting the mood while the keys put
out some nice tinkles before returning to freak-mode. Overall, don't look for great album-continuity or fancy segues, but fans of groups
like Escapade, Subarachnoid Space and a number of jam-based 70s space/kraut bands should find something of value here. —-Chuck
Rosenberg (Aural Innovations #16)
Magnasparagus musik beskrivs bäst som exprimentell, ut-space-ad, fri-jazz, kraut rock.
För det exprimentella som finns i kraut rock räcker inte till för att beskriva denna musik.
Detta är det mest galnaste, knasigaste, slammer-skrän till musik som jag nånsin hört. Inte
för att jag vill att musik ska vara fin och ordnad. Men Magnasparagus musik tycks inte ha
någon struktur överhuvudtaget. Men vad ska man förvänta sig av ett band som heter
Magnasparagus? Men bara för detta band är så jävla utstående över allt annat jag hört,
och det märks att detta band gör nåt som verkligen De vill, tänker jag sätta betyget ett
steg högre. För er som vill ha nåt extremt svårlyssnat på kosmiska nivåer rekommenderar
jag denna skiva starkt.
Recenserat av: Nisse
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