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Sunship

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  • Genre: Experimental / Jazz / Nu-Jazz

    Location seattle/new york, US

    Profile Views: 46705

    Last Login: 5/28/2010

    Member Since 8/15/2005

    Website http://sunshipmusic.blogspot.com/

    Type of Label Major

  • Bio

    SIGNAL TO NOISE- Spring Issue 2008.. "Sunship flies high and burns brightly on it's maiden voyage."-Tom Djll.. ..THE STRANGER, DECEMBER 2007.... "Sunship is one of the few groups that not only plays in a space, but plays with space."--Chris Delaurenti.. ..EARSHOT JAZZ, SEPTEMBER 2005.... Half of the powerful, late-and-lamented Stinkhorn has reemerged as Sunship – named, of course, for the mighty John Coltrane Quartet album of the early 1960s. The guitarist from Stinkhorn, Brian Heaney, and the horn player, Michael Monhart, have teamed up with bassist Andrew Luthringer and drummer David Revelli (Grassy Knoll) for a new lineup whose outstanding range and imagination is royally announced on the EP, Sunship.-- Peter Monaghan..A recent review of our Ep on the web site-- http://www.seaoftranquility.org.. Sunship: Sunship (EP)-- Now this is the way modern jazz should sound. Sunship is a new band featuring sax player Michael Monhart and guitarist Brian Heaney from Stinkhorn, drummer David Revelli from Grassy Knoll, and bassist Andrew Luthringer. This ensemble throw all commercial and "smooth jazz" characteristics out the window, and instead have created a churning cauldron of avant-jazz in the grand tradition of Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane. Led by the squonking sax of Monhart and the blazing guitar runs of Heaney, Sunship plow through five fairly short jazz burners, leaving the listener breathless and wanting more, much more. Check out Monhart's soaring sax work on the opener "Psalm X", supported by the nimble drum work of Revelli, who then gives way to a screaming guitar solo from Heaney, before Revelli comes back again for a powerful solo in the tradition of Art Blakey or Billy Cobham. These players are litterally on fire here, constantly searching and playing off each other, seemingly ready to go far out into space before coming back and weaving complex lines around each other. Monhart blows some somber Coltrane inspired lines on the dark "Her Name is Danny", while "Fuzzy Logic" is raging avant-garde jazz at its finest with all players exploring and blowing with reckless abandon. Npw all they need to do is put together a full-length release and take this formula to the next level. Fans of the Cuneiform roster should eat this stuff up... --- Pete Pardo .. .. I edited my profile with ..Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4..
  • Members

    Brian Heaney- guitar.. Michael Monhart- saxophone.. David Revelli- drums.. Andrew luthringer- bass.. Stuart Dempster- trombone..
  • Influences

    John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Raoul Bjorkenheim, Sun Ra, Sonny Sharrock, Steve Tibbits, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Elvin Jones, Pharoah Sanders
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  • Aaron Koppel



    #7 in Neil Tesser’s Top Ten Chicago Jazz Discs of 2009
    2009 Grammy nominating ballot for Best Instrumental Jazz Album
    #12 in JazzChicagonet’s Top Chicago Recordings of 2009
    3 ½ Stars! (3=Good, 4=Excellent) Downbeat Magazine

    “The emphasis is on group interplay, with active basslines and lively arrangements.”
    - John Ephland, Downbeat, December 2009.


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  • SubtleNoiseMaker

    new cacophonator II in stock, with soundinput, preamplifier and feedbackpoti.

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    3 years ago
  • (D)(B)(H)

    NEW TAPE AVAILABLE!!!

    new
cassette out on rare youth records, somewhat soon-ish.

    (D)(B)(H) - "not all girls just wanna have fun" c40 TAPE

    "skirting the line between commune-psych excess(es - i’m implicitly reminded of the swedish early 70s wave - international harvester, et.al - but also contemporary hydra-headed beasts like sapat) & a kind of desultory group-mind version of the freewheeling fire music, this music takes in a lot of disparate influences yet stays on target throughout... this tape features a bunch of shorter tracks; each living it’s own fidelity/soundworld, each edited to provide the “meat” of each given session / lineup without too much in the way of “filler”; something a rarity in these days of endless “fill the void” documentation... free and focused extended-jams courtesy of this rag-tag collective from bloomington, indiana. recorded in 2007 & 2008, involving: justin rhody, clare hubbard, keith wright, jail flanagan, jeff witscher, dave easlick, tricky matt, kray fanny, greg blakemore, dorey fox, chris barth and more. recorded live (no overdubs) onto a small one track thrift store tape deck. tribal and bizarre, not quite fitting into any of the pre-charted territories..."

    released through RARE YOUTH recordings (www.rareyouth.org)
    available through: rare youth, friends & relatives, forced exposure, mimaroglu music, molehill, armageddon and volcanic tongue...
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    3 years ago
  • Driftkikker


    Wishing You & Yours
    A VERY HAPPY HOLIDAYS
    and LOTS of SUCCESS in
    NEW YEAR !!!


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  • Luis Hernandes

    I wish you a great Christmas holidays!!!!
    Thanks
    Luis Hr

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  • TAP-Records

    thx 4 connecting !

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