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▀▀▓▓█▌ Free Form Funky Freqs - Urban Mythology Volume One ░
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▀▀▄▓▒▓ Artist .....: Free Form Funky Freqs ▓▒▓
▐█▓▓ Title ......: Urban Mythology Volume One ▓▓█
▀██▓ Year .......: 2008 ▓██
██▓ Genre ......: Jazz ▓██
███ Label ......: Thirsty Ear ▓██
███ Source .....: CD ▓█▓
███ Bitrate ....: 185 kbps avg ██▓
███ khz ........: 44.1 █▓▓
███ Mode .......: Joint Stereo ██▓
██▓ Encoder ....: LAME v3.97 -V2 --vbr-new ██▓
██▓ Reldate ....: 2008-02-14 ▓██
██▓ Storedate ..: 2008-02-12 ▓██
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███▌ Tracklist ▀ ███
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███ 1. A Tale of Two Bridges 11:57 ███
███ 2. Don Cheadle 5:27 ███
███ 3. Ghost Sign Crossroad 7:08 ███
███ 4. Over And Under 3:52 ███
███ 5. A Lost Way Found 6:26 ███
███ 6. Nappy Hour 4:18 ███
███ 7. Chump Champ Chunk 5:05 ███
███ 8. Get Your Legs On 4:26 ███
███ 9. Doing Within 4:45 ███
███ 10. Street Corner Prophecy 4:39 ███
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███▌ Release ▀ ███
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██▓ On Free Form Funky FrδqsÆ third performance ever, ▓██
██▓ this upstart fusion trio hit RECORD and laid it all ▓██
██▓ down. The result, Urban Mythology Volume One, is ▓██
██▓ surprisingly even. Although the band members didnÆt ▓██
██▓ know each other yet, or at least not well enough to ▓██
██▓ call this record much more than a session, their ▓██
██▓ performance is fairly tight, and the music is, sort ▓██
██▓ of, good. ▓██
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██▓ The Frδqs are comprised of Vernon Reid (founder of ▓██
██▓ Living Colour(!)), and Philadelphia-based free jazz ▓██
██▓ heroes Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Calvin Westin on bass ▓██
██▓ and drums, respectively. Their approach mingles the ▓██
██▓ heavy with the funky û folks who spun Vivid over ▓██
██▓ and over again back in 1989 will have a sense of ▓██
██▓ what this means û while dipping into some downtown ▓██
██▓ experimental jazz sounds α la Groundthunder. ▓██
██▓ However, unlike their ostensible contemporaries, ▓██
██▓ the FrδqsÆ tunes track between pedal-driven ▓██
██▓ atmosphere and high-speed pyrotechnics, leaving ▓██
██▓ little room for sparkle or wit. The result is a bit ▓██
██▓ lugubrious: like a humourless blues record, the ▓██
██▓ darkness seems to trump the groovy. ▓██
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██▓ This is the kind of jam-based jazz that really ▓██
██▓ divides listeners. While some will hear in Vernon ▓██
██▓ ReidÆs lengthy soloing the re-emergence of a guitar ▓██
██▓ hero, others will hear just about exactly what they ▓██
██▓ dislike about the genre. It is often said that this ▓██
██▓ kind of jamband stuff smacks of laziness, with ▓██
██▓ just-give-me-something-to-solo-over arrangements, ▓██
██▓ the refusal of rehearsals, etc. Indeed, the lack of ▓██
██▓ distinct interplay between musicians, coupled with ▓██
██▓ the hyper-dominant electric guitar, suggests a kind ▓██
██▓ of vanity project for Reid. While his rhythm ▓██
██▓ section plays fairly straight accompaniment, ▓██
██▓ staying at home more than they should in a ôfree ▓██
██▓ formö trio like this, Reid rides up and down the ▓██
██▓ fretboard like Steve Vai on amphetamines. ▓██
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██▓ Notice how I didnÆt say Grant Green. The Free Form ▓██
██▓ Funky Frδqs (or, at least, Vernon Reid) take ▓██
██▓ musical cues from heavy metal û and æ80s-era heavy ▓██
██▓ metal at that. This is no doubt fascinating when ▓██
██▓ experienced live (for a little while). But, on ▓██
██▓ record, the result is less than riveting. The ▓██
██▓ guitar tones are too strident, too electric, and ▓██
██▓ melody seems supplanted by all this noisy energy. ▓██
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██▓ I wonder if this is the reason that ReidÆs former ▓██
██▓ band, so dominant while they were around, has ▓██
██▓ weathered worse than A Flock of Seagulls? Apart ▓██
██▓ from Chuck Klosterman, has anyone actually listened ▓██
██▓ to Living Colour since 1991? The cacophony, the ▓██
██▓ searing violence of ReidÆs aesthetic approach just ▓██
██▓ leaves one a bit cold. His fingers move like ▓██
██▓ lightning, but I guess his music just doesnÆt move ▓██
██▓ me. Unfortunately, this holds true on Free Form ▓██
██▓ Funky FrδqsÆ Urban Mythology Volume One. ▓██
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