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: Artist......: Sick Boss
: Album.......: Businessless :
: Label.......: Drip Audio .. .:.. .
Genre.......: Avantgarde :
Catnr.......: DA12188 .
' Source......: CD ,
; Rip.date....: 2023-12-04
Str.date....: 2023-11-03
Quality.....: 265kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :..
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1. Useless Genius 1 6:04
2. When The Buzzards Leave The Bones 5:03
3. Useless Genius 2 5:04
4. Doctor Dawn 7:14
5. Useless Genius 3 5:54
6. CJ Blues 7:54
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,: SICK BOSS assembles some of Vancouver's finest improvising :,
: musicians under the bold leadership of guitarist and composer :
:' Cole Schmidt. The band's hefty, episodic compositions are ':
,: mostly built upon sturdy instrumental rock foundations but will :,
: colourfully explode into detailed, vigorous arrangements. These :
:' expansive pieces inevitably unfurl into passages of ':
,: improvisatory interplay, textural drift, and even diaphanous :,
: chamber-music-like junctures, revealing the vast and imaginative :
:' collective capacity of this brilliant group. ':
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,: In 2017, the band released their self-titled debut album on Drip :,
: Audio. It was named among the top albums of 2017 in Vancouver s :
:' The Georgia Straight and was warmly received in other media. ':
,: The band performed in support of this record at festivals across :,
: Canada and Europe including Suoni Per Il Popolo (Montreal), :
:' JazzTopad (Poland), and the Vancouver International Jazz ':
,: Festival. :,
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,: :,
: Their forthcoming follow-up effort, Businessless, their first on :
:' vinyl, is in many ways more immediate and boisterous than its ':
,: predecessor. It's also more strange and volatile. Opener :,
: "Useless Genius 1" announces the album with gnarly propulsion, :
:' only to drop down to a single sustained sine bleep some two ':
,: minutes later. The tone dissolves into a slowly evolving, :,
: drumless swarm that balloons gradually, bursting into a frantic :
:' reprise of the track's opening. "When Buzzards Leave The Bones" ':
,: takes an even less predictable route. Initially it spotlights :,
: the bowed strings of Josh Zubot, Peggy Lee and James Meger but :
:' things start to unravel as Schmidt lays down a loping groove. ':
,: Zubot hacks away at his violin, strumming like an unplugged No :,
: Wave guitarist, ushering the piece toward a full-band climax. :
:' The violinist and Lee are the only ones to emerge from the ':
,: wreckage and chatter amongst themselves first cautiously, and :,
: later restlessly as the track comes to a close. :
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: :
:' These contrasting, but equally action-packed pieces provide a ':
,: clear indication of the remaining music's trajectory. Even the :,
: relatively continuous path of their majestic jaimie branch :
:' tribute "Doctor Dawn" is subject to eccentric formal kinks ':
,: amidst its elegiac swell. It's a record that teems with charisma :,
: and nervy energy, swerving impulsively between contrasting :
:' arrangements, musical styles and even methodology. Though ':
,: wildly erratic in certain ways, each cut unleashes at least one :,
: big, downright singable melody, and this fact allows SICK BOSS :
:' to bound across these seemingly vast sonic and aesthetic chasms ':
,: without exhausting themselves or listeners. :,
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: SICK BOSS encompasses a wealth of experience that spans many :
:' dimensions of Vancouver s music scene from alternative pop to ':
,: far-out experimentation. Appearing in their full line-up, the :,
: band performs the unique amalgam of composition and improvised :
:' music showcased here; in smaller or collaboration-oriented ':
,: incarnations, the group primarily improvises. SICK BOSS' :,
: constituent members have received or been nominated for :
:' prestigious awards while collaborating with the likes of Mary ':
,: Margaret O Hara, Destroyer, Dan Mangan, Gordon Grdina, Jesse :,
: Zubot, Marin Patenaude, Pugs & Crows, Dave Douglas, Sam Shalabi, :
:' Ingrid Jensen, Mats Gustafsson, Lisa Cay Miller s NOW ':
,: Orchestra, Tony Wilson, Chad VanGaalen, and have many more. :,
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