Snack s was released by the Italian label AltrOck and they once again present us with a high quality album! One more excellent and challenging delivery from AltrOck Productions! The kind where they apply all of the most devious tricks, twists, and turns that they can squeeze from their knowledge of music theory. Hawkes returned from his injury and the debut album "Vehicle" was completed and released in on the Italian Avant-Progressive label AltrOck Productions. Variety Pack Wally Scharold. While I would consider a lot of prog to be a sort of rock musicians' aim at making high art, miRthkon is distinct in that they give the impression of simply being artists who are interested in seeing what happens when music from all corners of the sociocultural spectrum collide. 
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Though I'll get back to the music shortly, Mirghkon mention this up front to highlight that despite the musical erudition, the band is still quirky, even silly, bringing in that Zappa-esque touch where even the most pretentious of things ridicule their own pretentiousness in an act of self-awareness.
Next two songs, 'Mymaridae' also a re-recording from their second album and 'Variety Pack' follow the same path of calmer pieces of 'Osedax' and they have some unusual chords sequences. The ingenious concept might sncks empty calories, obesity, and type 2 diabetes, but no need to worry. Eat a Bag of DiX 5: The process of rehearsing and snaccks the music is often done in the style of contemporary classical orchestral and chamber music, with a strong emphasis on ensemble interplay and dynamics.
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Lebofsky continued to perform with the band for eight months while Hawkes healed. Streaming and Download help. Like most avant-progressive artists, miRthkon's musical aesthetic eludes easy categorization, its defiance of virtually all musical convention being the only unifying attribute.
Snack s was released by the Italian label AltrOck and they once again present us with a high quality album! But that's exactly why bands like miRthkon are interesting, they go out of the 'box' of the conventional music but with good ideas and songs that were clearly worked through with a high amount of rehearsal.
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miRthkon – Snack(s)
Streams Videos All Posts. If you like miRthkon, you may also like:. Oakland, CaliforniaUnited States. RIO-flavored, avant metal sounds like something that might interest you, Mirthkon is a band that merits an inspection, and "Snack s " comes across as an album that represents this band fairly well.
QXP Space Modulator 3: There isn't a boring moment on the album. Miethkon a close inspection of the ingredients printed in a suitably tiny font reveals that they are actually lyrics for the six tunes that feature vocals.
Snacks represents the second release from this Altrock Records band, an album that is at once strange, quirky, and avant-garde while never losing its ability to be catchy, engaging, and fun. Jazz Latin New Age. There he met other musicians to form a band and perform his older miRthkon compositions, as well as collaborate on new ones.
The septet is formed by Wally Scharold vocals, guitars, keyboards and percussionMatt Guggemos drums snadks, Travis Andrews guitarsCarolyn Walter flutes, mirtykon and saxophonesJamison Smeltz saxophones and Matt Lebofsky bass, vocals, keyboards and percussion.
MIRTHKON Snack(s) reviews
Eric Gedenk go to album. Weeks snacke its release, alto saxophonist Aram Shelton joined to form the first core lineup. Zappa's influence can also be found in the execution of the music itself. Not just some Jazz Fusion thing that doesn't go anywhere!
They make an abuse of complex time signatures and dissonance IMHO. As the cherry on the cake that is Snack s we have something even more unusual, a version for Black Sabbath's 'Fairies Wear Boots'.
Avant-rockRock in Oppositionprogressive rockavant-garde metaljazz fusionavant-garde jazzneo-classical. Views Read Edit View history. This approach draws on the notational practices of contemporary classical music, big band jazz, and thrash metal guitar technique, often incorporating ,irthkon idiomatic techniques and employing the specialized notation standardized within each particular musical style.
Whether all of this is to be viewed as a festival of pastiche or parody, the end result is an album which is not only musically sophisticated, but visually entertaining on a base level without ever losing that air of "we did this in full consciousness of 20th century artistic trends.
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