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Artist:	KONK PACK
Title:	Off Leash
Label:	GROB (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	GROB 654CD

"Off Leash is the third release of the delicate high-energy trio Konk Pack -- founded in 1998 and made up of Thomas Lehn on EMS-synthesizer, Roger Turner on drums and Tim Hodgkinson on la-top steel guitar and clarinet. Off Leash bears up to the musicians' critical ears. For the first time they are so convinced of their own concert that they found it valuable to release it in its entirety on a CD. Off Leash offers the opportunity of following an entire Konk Pack improvisation in real time, without any post production dramaturgy and cosmetics. The extremely powerful passages, their legendary free punk, is in a perfectly balanced proportion to the peaceful, sometimes fragile, passages that nearly crumble apart. The music is both: it is consistent, like of a cast, like from a group that had played far more than 100 concerts (which is seldom in the world of improvised music); the music, however, is also eruptive, often surprising, fragmentary and heterogeneous. The music from Konk Pack is the contradiction made productive: finely engraved tonal work and hard free punk are not placed non-reconcilably next to each other; in fact, they determine each other."

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