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Megan Quartet
Fusion / Jazz / Psychedelic

Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.


Tallinn
Estonia

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Member Since6/18/2007
Band Websitekaspar.imelaps.ee/meganquartet
Band MembersAulis Nemvalts – saksofonid / saxophones
Mihkel Mälgand – bass, kontrabass / bass, contra bass
Rauno Rebane
– trummid / drums
Tarvo Kaspar Toome – klahvpillid, kitarr, muusika, programmeerimine, seaded / piano, keyboards, guitars, music, arrangements /
InfluencesABBA, Dire Straits, Apelsin, Rock Hotel, Peter Gabriel, Jean Michel Jarre, Eppu Normaali, heavy metal, Metallica, Röövel Ööbik, The Queen, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Kate Bush, The Shuffle Demons, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, The Pixies, Björk, Kaseke, VSP Projekt, Ruja, Radar, In Spe, Weekend Guitar Trio etc.
Sounds Likefusion, psychedelic jazzrock
Record LabelMKDK Records
Type of LabelIndie


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Megan Quartet album Roadside Picnic

NEW CD RELEASED! — Megan Quartet "Roadside Picnic".

Megan Quartet "Väljasõit rohelisse / Roadside Picnic"
MKDK Records
MKDKCD0025
December 2008

“Roadside Picnic” is the 25th (!) release of indie label MKDK Records and Megan Quartet's third fusion-jazz-rock-album, which contains band's selected studiosessions. You will encounter two different Megan Quartets on this recording. One is minimalist in its use of sound, somewhat similar to how they played their music live at that time — with just a bass, a piano or a guitar, a saxophone and the percussions. The other has been produced, polished and fine-tuned with great pleasure and a concentrated ear to detail — a band of several layers and tricks, or, as it actually sounds inside the head of this group's founder and leader Tarvo Kaspar Toome.

The album contains music that, due to circumstances, was written in 1992–1997, performed 1997–2002, recorded 1997–1998 and mixed 2002–2008 — it's a record which producing took over 10 years! Probably it is the time that should provide the reason and the context for this music — the very same time that so eagerly delayed the release of this record... It might as well be called “Dwarf Disco”, “The Burning Man”, “The Other Estonia”, “The Tape Scandal”, “The Good and Cheap Israeli Guns”, “20 000 Tonnes of Sugar”, “Legally, Everything's In Order”, “The Real Estate Bubble” or “Driving Together Towards the Sunset in our Predatory Capitalism”. Outside of Estonia, these keywords are, of course, meaningless — which, thank god, is as it should be. Hi-ho!

Tracks:

  1. Threesome 8:30
  2. In Russian 7:52
  3. Crawler 6:14
  4. The Sense of Presence 17:04
  5. Roadside picnic 8:39

To order CD-s send email to: meganquartet (at) gmail.com

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Megan Quartet is an Estonian fusiongroup which was created in the spring of 1997 by musician and composer Tarvo Kaspar Toome in Tallinn. Megan Quartet's contemporary instrumental music unites elements of rock, classical, minimalist, psychedelic, alternative and jazz music. Megan Quartet is the direct descendant of Meggan, probably the oldest band in Estonian new wave of progressive and jazzrock, that started in the beginning of 1990's.

Music is a vehicle, a bicycle, to be exact — pedalling slowly, one is able to pay attention to even the finest minutiae; then again, while riding full-throttle, the details can be forgotten and all attention turned to enjoing the wind and the ride itself...
In this manner, strange and exquisite journeys into the inner realms can be embarked upon. Thus it was that bicyle became the band's logo.

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UUS PLAAT VÄLJAS! — Megan Quartet "Väljasõit rohelisse".

Megan Quartet "Väljasõit rohelisse / Roadside Picnic"
MKDK Records
MKDKCD0025
detsember 2008

"Väljasõit rohelisse" on MKDK Recordsi 25. (!) ja Megan Quarteti kolmas valitud stuudiosessioone sisaldav instrumentaal-fusion-jazzrock-album. Salvestistel saab kuulda kahte erisugust Megan Quartetti. Üks on helikeelelt minimalistlik, umbes selline, millisena seda muusikat kontsertidel mängiti — ainult bass, klaver või kitarr, saksofon ja trummid. Teine on keel-suunurgast-väljas-mõnutades produtseeritud, vuntsitud ja lihvitud — fusionbänd mitmete kihtide ja krutskitega ehk selline nagu see muusika bändi looja ning kunstilise juhi Tarvo Kaspar Toome peas tegelikult kõlab.

Plaadile on pressitud muusika, mis on olude sunnil kirjutatud aastatel 1992–1997, esitatud 1997–2002, salvestatud 1997–1998 ja miksitud 2002–2008, ehk tegemist on plaadiga, mille valmimisprotsess oli ülipikk – üle kümne aasta. Ilmselt annab sellele muusikale ning tehtud tööle põhjenduse ja konteksti seesama aeg — aeg, tänu millele see plaat ei tahtnud kunagi valmis saada...
Teisisõnu võiks plaadi nimi sama hästi olla "Päkapikudisko", "Põlev mees", "Teine Eesti", "Lindiskandaal", "Head ja odavad Iisraeli relvad", "20 000 tonni suhkrut", "JOKK", "Kinnisvaramull" või "Kuidas me röövkapitalismis Päikseloojangusse kihutame". Väljaspool Eestit ei ütle need märksõnad muidugi midagi — ja, jumal tänatud, ei peagi ütlema. Hei-hoo!

Lood:

  1. Kolmekesi 8:30
  2. Venekeelne 7:52
  3. Roomaja 6:14
  4. Kohalolekutunne 17:04
  5. Väljasõit rohelisse 8:39

Plaadi tellimiseks saada e-post: meganquartet (at) gmail.com

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Megan Quarteti nime kannab 1997. aasta kevadel muusiku ja helilooja Tarvo Kaspar Toome poolt Tallinnas moodustatud fusion-jazzrock-grupp. Bändi eesmärgiks on luua ja esitada nüüdisaegset instrumentaalmuusikat, mis ühendab endas rocki, klassikalise, minimalistliku, psühhedeelse, alternatiivse kui ka jazzmuusika elemente. Megan Quarteti eelkäijaks on otseselt ansambel Meggan — tõenäoliselt vanim 1990. aastate alguses alustanud uues proge- ja jazzrocki laines alustanud Eesti fusionbändidest.

Muusika on reisimisvahend, täpsemalt jalgratas — vaikselt sõites on võimalik tähele panna pisemaidki detaile; samas võid kihutades unustada üksikasjad ning tegeleda lihtsalt sõidu ja tuule nautimisega...
Nõnda saab teha eriskummalisi avastusretki siseilmadesse. Sestap saigi bändi logoks jalgratas.

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