Next featured artist TIPOGRAPHICA This band existed from 1986 until 1998 and who released four albums in the 90s. They play completely instrumental music, basically a rhythmically complex type of jazz-rock. If you like melodic symphonic rock or neo-prog, you probably won’t like their music. RIO freaks, jazz or jazz-rock lovers, and fans of ZAPPA or complex music in general definitely should try one of their albums. Any of their four albums is a good place to start. Well, if you like exploring the progressive music, sooner or later you’ll have to meet them and acquire their Canterbury inspired New Music Of all of Zappas heir apparents, to my ears, Tipographica win hands down for their higher key and often mind melting whirlwinds of avant prog motion. Next to Koenjihyakkei, these boys represented for me the highest water mark of Japans avant prog explosion during the 90s and this incredible live document finds them spinning on a dime as effectively in a live setting as in a studio. With its endless twisting and inward folding structures, the Ruth Underwood-driven light-speed instrumental runs from, say, Apostrophes St. Alphonzos Pancake Breakfast might serve as a convenient point of reference here, though Tipographica also specialize in a sort of destabilized mock-drunken wooze and lurch and occasional bouts of offhand breeziness that are uniquely theirs alone. For further elucidation, their sublime first and second studio albums can be found on, respectively, the Delerium Dust and Sakalli blogs, but this is as good a point of entry for the uninitiated as any. My highest recommendation!
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 18:20:29 +0000
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