A BAND GOING BY THE NAME OF OSOREZAN MASKING A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT WITH DARIN GRAY (WHO WAS IN BRISE-GLACE AND GENERALLY A LONGTIME PAL OF O'ROURKE) AND IN DEMAND DRUMMER EXTRAORDINAIRE CHRIS CORSANO (CIRCULAR BREATHING ON A DRUMKIT REMAINS ONE OF THOSE LIVE MOMENTS TO BE TOPPED).
THIS IS ONE OF THOSE YOU WOULD PROBABLY FILE UNDER JAZZ OR FREE ROCK BECAUSE OF BOTH TERMS HAVING SOME SENSE OF MALLEABILITY WHEN IT COMES TO 'NOT PAYING MUCH ATTENTION TO RULES OR YOUR ENJOYMENT'.
WHAT GENERALLY PAINS ME ABOUT THIS KIND OF MUSIC, HAVING BEEN AROUND VARIOUS FREE ROCK/JAZZ SCENES AT THE TIME THIS WAS RECORDED (THAT CORSANO WAS ACTIVE IN) IS THAT THERE ABSOLUTELY *IS* AN ORTHODOXY HERE, A DOGMA, AN UNDERPINNING. AND I HATE TO SAY IT THAT THAT DOGMA IS 'AVOID DOING ANYTHING FAMILIAR'. YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE HOW QUICKLY THAT BECOMES BORING DESPITE PURPORTING TO VENTURE BOLDLY ON THE OPPOSITE PATH.
I HAVEN'T MATURED ENOUGH TO PRETEND TO GET INTO STUFF LIKE THIS. IT ISN'T THE MOST OBJECTIONABLE RECORD IN ITS CLASS AND AT TIMES MIGHT EVEN PITCH TOWARD THE WELCOMING SHORES OF BEING OK, BUT IT IS MUSIC THAT TRADES ON NAMES RATHER THAN MERIT.
JIM DID A FEW GUITAR SKRONK RECORDS LIKE THIS WHILE HE WAS IN SONIC YOUTH AND WILCO, CLEARLY PERTURBED BY ALL THOSE ACTUAL MELODIES HE WAS COMPLICIT IN MAKING.
NOT QUITE A DUD BUT NOT FAR OFF.
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