ROBERT MUSSO - ACTIVE RESONANCE & TRANSONIC 2 - VIRTUAL CURRENT
Two CD albums featuring the virtually unclassifiable sounds of Robert Musso, along with an assemblage of stellar accomplices, either under his own name, or as a part of the Transonic project...
1992 and 1994 original releases, 20+ year vintage, the purist's choice...
- Playtested...each!
- In very good condition, and there are no playback problems, it's all good!
- Various pictures uploaded, all taken from the actual items, what you see is what you get...
- The jewel cases have the usual light scuffing and other small signs of shelfwear, etc, but are in good working order.
- The inlay booklets / cards are in very good condition, any specific details for these items are listed below.
- For tracklisting details see either the pictures of the discs, or the pictures of the rear of the inlay cards...
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Active Resonance
'Guitarist, composer, and master mixing engineer Robert Musso has issued another chapter in his evolving space-dub jam session recordings. This one features many of the usual suspects - Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell, Aiyb Deng, Bootsy Collins, and some others, such as the late Thomas Chapin, Jonas Hellborg, and Tanar Catalpinar. Here, the post-modal jazz of John Coltrane is heard as it meets the dawn of 1990s funk-dub world-fusion on "A Dream Supreme," and the shifting sands of global cowboy-ism as it voices its desolation on "Alliance." On "All Funked Up," Afro-funk meets the J.B.'s with Bootsy on grunting cheerleader vocals. And so it goes, with the only cohesive glue in the cracks being Musso's disciplined direction, excellent guitar playing, and his indomitable sense of groove no matter what the genre stipulations, whether it be a muezzin wailing over a wall of deep space dub, Eastern-tinged modalism or euphoric jazz and rock...'
10 tracks and 59 minutes.
On MUworks, catalog number MUW 1008
1992 CD album release.
4 page inlay, fairly basic.
next up...
Transonic 2 - Virtual Current / Downstream Illusion
'Robert Musso has taken the best moments from Downstream Illusion and expanded them into these two spacious pieces for his second release. After a long ambient intro, the fantastic guitar melody and bassline come in on "Whirlpool" for what has to be the finest moments in the Transonic series as well as a classic ambient highlight from the FAX label. "Wheel of Heaven" has another long ambient intro before you hear the familiar repetitive bassline loop from Bill Laswell, plus Gilmour-style guitar from Musso, combined with the heightened quality of watery backing ambience...the Transonic sound has never sounded better...'
2 tracks and 51 minutes.
On Fax, catalog number+49/-69 450464
Album title differs on inlay and disc, although catalog details and track titles match up.
1994 CD album release.
Basic 4 page inlay.
Rare items, combined with input by such as Bill Laswell, Bootsy Collins and Thomas Chapin...what's not to like?
Buy-it-Now, two albums, one convenient package...
$28.50
Postage - USA - Free shipping....nice!
Media Mail, please note.
Tracking numbers will be added when appropriate, as early as possible.
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