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Artist:	BENDIAN'S INTERZONE, GREGG
Title:	Gregg Bendian's Interzone
Label:	ATAVISTIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ALP 156CD

"Remastered reissue of Interzone's self-titled debut release is replete with over 12 minutes of previously unreleased bonus material in a new package with images by digital maven Bill Elsworth. Featuring uber-percussionist/ leader Gregg Bendian and The Brothers Cline (Nels & Alex, that is...)- breakthrough prog-jazz never sounded better. From Gregg's liner notes: "Growing up in New Jersey during the 1970's I was exposed to a great many British progressive bands. Compositionally, the most important of these bands, by far, was Gentle Giant. Their Free Hand (1975) record changed my ears for life. In Gentle Giant's complex brand of chamber music, I heard for the first time (quite unwittingly) such diverse elements as counterpoint, hocketing, atonality, polytonality, polymetrics, metric modulation, rhythmic displacement, multi-instrumentalism and of course, percussion as a featured voice -- all vital areas of contemporary composition which I would later study seriously as a musician. Twenty years hence, while making a rediscovery and extended examination of their work, I realize what a profound and lasting effect their music and musicianship has had on my own approach to the composition/band concept relationship. This recording is dedicated to the core members of Giant (Kerry Minnear, Derek Shulman, Ray Shulman, Gary Green & John Weathers) with much admiration, respect and gratitude."

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