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Artist:	MUFFINS, THE
Title:	Bandwidth
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 161CD

"The Muffins -- the band whom Fred Frith called 'the finest progressive band America produced' -- are back after an absence of two decades.Bandwidth, in production for more than two years, is the first album of new music by the band since 1980. Reformed in its best-known quartet version, the band sounds like it had never been apart. The Muffins' new music remains 'progressive' to its core in the truest meaning of that term: forward looking, boundary bursting, innovative, and yes, astonishingly fresh. Influenced by Soft Machine, Hatfield & The North, Henry Cow, Sun Ra, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and many other jazz and European progressive rock bands, this quartet forged a committed following in the USA and abroad during the 1970's until 1981, when they split up. In a world glutted with half-baked reformations by bands looking to cash in on past glories, Bandwidth is the genuine article; a reformation of all the original members who have gotten together not for money, but because they miss what they had done together in the past and who feel that they still have something to say."

Artist:	MUFFINS, THE
Title:	Double Negative
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 199CD

"Originally founded in 1974, The Muffins were one of the best known bands in a world-reknowned progressive music scene that flourished in D.C. a decade before D.C.'s better known hard-core punk scene emerged. Double Negative is The Muffins' 2nd studio recording released since reforming and possibly the most ambitious work of their career. Featuring 75 minutes of music spread over 17 songs, Double Negative is The Muffins' most compositionally diverse work, featuring pieces that vary in style from jazz to rock to classical and beyond. In addition, it is the band's most instrumentally rich work, featuring an unprecedented number of guest appearances by musicians from D.C. (some previously on Bandwidth) and farther afield. 2 principal members of the Sun Ra Arkestra, Marshall Allen and Knoel Scott, play sax on several Double Negative tracks."

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