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Paul Kurzweil
Progressive / Fusion / Rock

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Member Since	2/16/2008
Band Website	kurzweil.net
Influences	Zappa, King Crimson, Focus, Yes, Genesis, Porcupine Tree
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Peter Eggers

Mar 15 2008 4:18 PM

Paul:
Wow!
"Easter Island" is an incredible track! Love the spacious, dramatic opening, and the big drum sound. The chiming guitar ostinato is very cool, as well as the simple bass anchor with its wonderful harmonic counterpoint. Oh yeah - and what about that tremendous rock guitar playing on top? Killer!
Then there's "Rhetoric vs Reality". Oh my god, is this jazz? But no, it just keeps morphing. Lots of unexpected twists, turns, and textures. There are the horror movie strings, and the tension of the obsessive, arpeggiated piano/guitar lines. It's like an orchestral work (without the orchestra). Edgy and unnerving, with impeccable acoustic guitar work. Do NOT play this before bedtime, kids!
"At Jo's" is blessed with an absolutely gorgeous melody, beautifully orchestrated with piano and strings. It feels like the emotional ending of a film - looking out on a darkened city, the camera moves up and away, flashing red/blue lights in the distance, fade to black.
But my top pick is "Martha's Prison Decor", which is a really fun, funky minimum security/maximum musicality tune about my favorite ex-con lifestyle diva. The banjo from out of nowhere gave it away - but WAIT - there's MORE: whammy bar metal guitar, TV movie-of-the-week strings, a Herbie Mann flute thing (I'm not kidding), and an extended hip-hop break from some "Girls Gone Wild" prison movie. And for a really BIG finish: grungy noise/industrial dance music combines with a mandolin playing a jig. And I swear I hear a cell phone ringing in there somewhere(?) But the real secret here is the wonderfully addictive acoustic stand-up bass line underneath this delightfully demented multi-genre mash-up.
How do you come up with all this brilliant stuff?
- Peter

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