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Chemical Clock: Bad Habitat

Read "Bad Habitat" reviewed by Dave Wayne


Here's another example of music that's devilishly complex, a bit bizarre and full of diverse influences (avant-classical, IDM / electronica, jazz-rock, video game music, and disco-funk, just for starters) which manages to come across as a really warm, human, celebratory listening experience. It's been a couple of years since Chemical Clock issued their eponymous debut album, and though these guys are among Seattle's busiest young musicians, Bad Habitat's monumental heaviness shows that they haven't glossed over or sacrificed any aspect ...

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Chemical Clock: Chemical Clock

Read "Chemical Clock" reviewed by Dave Wayne


Yet another band arising from Seattle's embarrassment of avant-jazz riches, Chemical Clock is an aggressive and determined young band with a lot of good ideas and more than enough chops to pull them off. Led by keyboardist and composer Cameron Sharif, the quartet's self-titled debut CD EP is a brief and refreshing blast of post- everything avant fusion. Keep in mind that the word “fusion" is a bit loaded. Fusion, to Sharif and his colleagues, means something very different than ...

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Recording

Recent Listening, Vinyly: Broadbent, Lowe, Horvitz, Chemical Clock, Kanda

Recent Listening, Vinyly: Broadbent, Lowe, Horvitz, Chemical Clock, Kanda

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey

Once during a listening session, I apologized to Paul Desmond for the pops and scratches on a worn LP. “I don’t care if it’s on a cellophane strip,” he said, “ as long as I can hear what everybody is doing.” When it comes to sound quality, high-end audio perfectionists tend to be more demanding than Desmond was that evening, and there are getting to be more of them. In an artist’s note on the inside jacket of his new ...

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Plastic Reality

Self-Released
2018

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Bad Habitat

Table and Chairs Music
2014

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Chemical Clock

Table and Chairs Music
2012

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Chemical Clock

Atavistic
2011

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