Artist: Billband
Album: Blurred
Year: 2004
Country : USA
label : Innova 609
Style: Progressive Rock
Genre: Avant-chamber, minimalism, avant-jazz, neoclassical.
Format: ape (image) with cue , EAC log.
Size: 194 MB (5 % recovery)
Source: tracker site
With a difficult-to-describe musical structure and style, Bill Ryan's tunes contain elements of familiar and attractive aural cues -- minimalistic ostinato figures, jazz, rock and, yes, even classical flavors in a tour de force that clearly projects Ryan's compositional command and artful constructions. Performed with a sense of spontaneity and high energy, Ryan's sometimes complex (but never overly so) textures project an aura of improvisation and integration, as though all of his players were just having a great time "jamming" together.
Recorded with an almost "spit-noise-on-the-back-of-the-reed" visceral presence, the sureness of Ryan's vision literally jumps out of the speakers. Billband is an experience, a band, and a sound that defies characterization. And, "Blurred" is a terrific first outing for this group.