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REVIEW by Jesse
Jarnow - Jambands.com
Spook the Pigeons - Guy Malone
The three guys in Guy Malone are remarkably efficient for a jamband. There is very little wasted space in their songwriting. In a way, it's textbook hippie composition -- odd timed sections veering into one another, guitar flourishes and melodic doohickeys, guitar solos cut by the occasional chorus. Even so, at least on Spook the Pigeons, there's (almost) always something going on, always a sense of forward motion through the material. It's impressive and
enjoyable....
REVIEW by Dave
Terpeny,
KyndMusic Editor
Spook the Pigeons - Guy Malone
By
the time they return full circle with the hard-rocking “Fine Day”
they have you convinced that heavy metal, ska, funk, reggae and the
kitchen sink are all the same music. Gone are genre boundaries, gone
are labels, and your head spins. You can’t quite believe what
you’ve heard but you know you liked it...
Connecticut's Guy Malone offers a wide array of electric music
on this 2004 CD! Never adhering to a specific genre, Guy Malone's updated trio sound is
easier to enjoy than to describe. This band has returned to their rock roots with this
driving disc that certainly would spook many a pigeon with its hard-hitting songs ... HGMN
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There’s
an old soul at work in the music of Guy Malone, something that predates the days of groove
jazz and house jambands. Something that even reaches back beyond the 70’s era- funk
and fusion pioneers that today’s club contenders are, consciously or unconsciously,
directly descended from.
You’re
likely to hear it in the trumpet-hook easy swing of “G-String”, one of several
showcases for keyboardist Nick Biello’s rich, Bill Evans-informed piano and guest
horn player Geoff Cunningham’s pinched, vigorously melodic mute trumpet lines. Or the
walking bassline and post-bop exuberance conjured in this CD’s lead title,
“Geppetto’s Lament”, which ranges from melancholy to joyous and nearly
everything in between. Even the baseball-lover ballad “Mookie Wilson”, a
low-calorie pop-jazz confection, is treated with a loving, detailed arrangement, bouncing
with grin at its top and embracing a ponderous, moody blues ride out. The nearly twelve
minute “Monkey”, recorded live sidestage at last year’s moe.down captures
the band’s live experience; a bruising, take-no-prisoners Brett Calabrese guitar
solo, turned over to a double-time, failed-brakes instrumental climax.
But
we suspect these guys have plenty of live tapes – this studio CD is an absolute
revelation, though; graceful and generous, melodic and impressionistic. It’d be
criminal to incarcerate this band, at least in its full horn-complimented configuration,
behind the cage bars of a “jamband” label. Outstanding.
- Dave Kirby
- Guy Malone performed at the 4th annual
moe.down Aug 31 Thanks to .moe, Jon Topper and all the great people at the festival We had
a blast!
Hear a live
track from that show. Monkey
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