Browse by Artist: YUGANAUT

Artist:	YUGANAUT
Title:	Sharks
Label:	ENGINE STUDIOS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	E 034CD

"Calling the three members of Yuganaut 'multi-instrumentalists' is a little too easy. What is needed is some kind of word that would connote being multiple bands. Between them they could be a small brass group, an electric chamber ensemble or a straight-ahead jazz trio. But such formal confines may not leave room for the moments of playfulness or the passages of spacey psychedelia that sneak in between their evocative and highly original sounds. Between them, band members Stephen Rush, Tom Abbs and Geoff Mann play Fender Rhodes and Moog synthesizer; trumpet, trombone and tuba; bass, cello and violin; and drums, toys and didgeridoo. Does that sound streamlined? Their previous release also included mandolin, euphonium and vibes. More important than the listing of implements is the fact that the three gentlemen of Yuganaut are more than conscientious about leaving room in the music, not just for each other but to let the music grow. Between them they can boast of Reggie Workman's tutelage, performance with the Warsaw National Symphony and membership in the Fela-inspired Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra. Which is to say there is tradition, formalism, groove and a sense of fun at play. They are at core, perhaps, a jazz band; but being a jazz band means (or should mean) that anything is possible. There's ritual, there's storytelling, they're contemplative, extrapolative, expressive, even impressive. Yuganaut is not here to be pigeon-holed. They're just here to play for you."

Artist:	YUGANAUT
Title:	This Musicship
Label:	ESP-DISK
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ESPDISK 4044CD

"Featured artists: Stephen Rush (Fender Rhodes, Micromoog, toys, euphonium), Tom Abbs (bass, violin, tuba, didjeridoo), Geoff Mann (drums, cornet, mandolin, vibes). This Musicship, piloted by Yuganaut, a crew of three intrepid explorers skilled in traveling the byways of space and time in the spirit of such previous pathfinders as Sun Ra, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and Miles Davis in his '60s and '70s electric period. 'Stephen Rush, Tom Abbs, and Geoff Mann create genuinely unpredictable soundscapes throughout this highly diverse disc, but always with attention to organic development and flow... Yuganaut proves that their chosen style of musical expression can be the sound of something genuinely startling.'" --Dave Lynch,All Music Guide

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