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Kakalla: The Seeds of Analog Rebellion

Read "The Seeds of Analog Rebellion" reviewed by Florence Wetzel


The Seeds of Analog Rebellion is the outstanding new CD by Kakalla, a Massachusetts-based quartet that successfully blends jazz and electronics. And not only: Kakalla's influences include traditional and modern Bulgarian music, Greek rembetika, Albanian folk music, and rock n' roll. Kakalla incorporates these apparently disparate genres into music that's thoroughly original and genuinely exciting. A good example of how Kakalla seamlessly combines its influences is “Maleficient Oblations to a God of Benevolence (composer Thomson Kneeland's gift with ...

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Kakalla: The Seeds of Analog Rebellion

Read "The Seeds of Analog Rebellion" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Mixing ingredients in a cauldron and coming up with the appetizing can yield a work of art. Thomson Kneeland, the leader and bassist of Kakalla, succeeds admirably in bringing together chamber music, European music, and a bit of rock with a compact jazz sensibility into a remarkable whole that at once grabs attention and draws the listener into its core. Kneeland has pursued this over the course of three albums with Kakalla, tweaking the lineup between a quartet and a ...

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Kakalla: The Voice Of Blood

Read "The Voice Of Blood" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Perhaps the open-mindedness of jazz at the beginning of the millennium and its absorption of a massive number of influences are the music's most notable elements. While the thirties were known for swing, the forties for bebop, the fifties for cool jazz, the late sixties and early seventies for fusion and the eighties for neo-conservatism, the late nineties and early “two thousands" may become recognized for multi-cultural awareness.Of course, such open-mindedness creates a conflict with the preservation, or ...

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The Seeds of Analog...

Weltschmerz Records
2005

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The Voice Of Blood

Weltschmerz Records
2001

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