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Kush: Streams of Consciousness Volume Two

Read "Streams of Consciousness Volume Two" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


There are no hidden agendas behind this Canadian electronics-oriented band. As stated on the ensemble's website, the music aims to please via a feelgood type manifesto, where jazz, house music, ethereal musings and solid instrumentation coalesce into a fastidiously assembled package. Marked by wah-wah trumpet lines, steady beats and layered effects, the ensemble looms as groove merchants, underscored by several acutely-placed detours. The program features prismatic soundscapes and ethereal electronics treatments. However, the musicians diversify the sound ...

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Kush: Streams of Consciousness: Volume One

Read "Streams of Consciousness: Volume One" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


The music on this first volume of Streams of Consciousness was inspired by sixty hours of live recordings of Kush's 2003-4 gigs at Toronto's Potato Blues Supper Club. The quartet, which has been nominated for Group of the Year by Canada's Smooth Jazz Awards, pursues a smooth, jazz-fusion contemporary sound, using loops and samples to provide a breezy ambient-electronic touch. Trumpeter Bryden Baird serves as the prime soloist, entrenching his muted lines within warmly stated proclamations atop snappy backbeats. The ...

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