quoted 5 lines From: Kelley Hackett <KHACKETT@aba.iupui.edu>>From: Kelley Hackett <KHACKETT@aba.iupui.edu>
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: (idm) Urban Sax
>Date: Wed, Jun 30, 1999, 5:22 PM
>quoted 14 lines I once heard of a guy called Jobere Artman, and a group called Urban>I once heard of a guy called Jobere Artman, and a group called Urban
>Sax-----
>I taped a show from Echoes about 5years ago in which Urban Sax played in
>NYC.......
>
>Any of you Blokes have a make on this cat or this group?
>
>Supposedly, one song had 45 saxophones playing at once, and it was quite
>original, and pleasant.....
>
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>Thanks for any and all help!
>
>Hk!
You're referring to Gilbert Artman, a drummer/keyboardist/saxophonist who
led
the amazing French group Lard Free before he started Urban Sax [a band I
haven't
heard]. Lard Free have 4 albums available through Spalax, a French label
that specializes in reissuing psychedelic/prog-rock/krautrock classics [I
think
Forced Exposure and Other Music would have most if not all of their catalog
in stock].
All date from the 70s and all are worth owning. Lard Free created a blend of
psychedelic jazz fusion and spacey electronics that sounds like no other
band on earth (except for one track that resembles a track on Miles' Bitches
Brew). The albums are Gilbert Artman's
Lard Free, I'm Around About Midnight, III [Roman numeral 3] and Unnamed.
Begin
with III, which is one of the most amazing-sounding albums I've ever heard.
It's such
an alien piece of music, an overwhelming vortex of unpeggable cosmic sounds
that
never fails to astound me.
Dave Segal
Managing Editor/Alternative Press
Reviews/BPM/Reissue Redux/Origins Of Cool
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