March 07, 2009

MASTER CYLINDER - ELSEWHERE (1980, LP, USA)

Hard-to-find but good jazz rock with a Canterbury flair at times from this Texas-based group. Lineup includes keys, guitar, bass, and drums, but various guest play woodwind and brass instruments, and there’s even a Serge modular keyboardist! A promo writeup states: “The music of Master Cylinder is a smooth blend of everything from tight ensemble composition to totally free improvisation; complex layers of polyrhythms to surging waves of pure sound; sections and bits of compostion surfacing from the flow and then redissolving".
"On the usually soulless Inner City label, Master Cylinder was anything but that. Their album has a strong melodic sense, and it seems the group must've been informed by the Canterbury groups like early Soft Machine or National Health, as well as the DC based Happy the Man. While ostensibly a jazz album, it's these rock elements that bring Master Cylinder to the next level. A very good album that time has forgot".(Thomashayes)
tracklist:
1. Overture 2. Isabelle 3. Elsewhere 4. Silhouette 5. Blasp 1937 6. Pllus 3 7.Hobb & Gebb
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10 comments:

  1. Waterfallman8 March 2009 at 12:09

    Thanks a lot for this man!

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  2. Anonymous8 March 2009 at 22:07

    Un'altra gemma musicale scoperta grazie al tuo splendido blog. Grazie!

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  3. Greco Bastián Después10 March 2009 at 16:51

    at last you are back!! i´m gonna steal some good albums from your reloaded blog!!

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  4. Stanley13 March 2009 at 19:08

    Today is my birthday and I am celebrating by discovering this incredible album! Thanks so mucho for keeping this alive!

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  5. Anonymous14 March 2009 at 10:44

    I´m so happy you are back again! ...and in a great form! Rare and fantastic albums that I can get only in your excentric and marvelous blog...Thanks a lot!!!!

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  6. Michael26 June 2009 at 08:46

    Thank you very much for this very rarealbum incredible music

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  7. peskypesky3 July 2009 at 02:16

    Very very very cool album!!!! This cooks! Love it.


    THANK YOU!

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  8. Anonymous26 September 2010 at 17:25

    Very nice! Good wind for you!

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  9. heavy duty wheels4 October 2012 at 07:30

    A wheel cylinder works in much the same way as a master cylinder on a disc brake, but is generally not as strong and is more prone to failure after excessive wear.

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  10. Anonymous31 March 2013 at 05:26

    Rapidshare link is dead.

    Here's a mirror link:

    http://tinyurl.com/d7nsmm4

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