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 Stephen
Kent>>>Oil
& Water
buy
Oil & Water from CD Baby here
>>New
in North America - Fall 2004 release from Stephen Kent [Didjeridu, Guitar,
Percussion, Cello Sintir etc] with producer Simon Tassano. Oil &
Water is on the new Family Tree label and distributed in N.America by White
Swan and Music Design.
Collaborations
with Igor Koshkendey [Tuvan Throat Singing, Igil, Yassir Chadly [Arabic
vocals,Guimbri], Jimi McCrae [Bagpipes], Steev Rothman Kindwald [Rajasthani
Flutes], among others.
From
Beats to Deep Ambience. Rich, Diverse, Eclectic.
“A
potent mix of blood, guts and grace, “Oil & Water” is the record Stephen
Kent has been hinting at for a long time. This is a soul album: from the
soul of the spirits to the soul of man, collected, enmeshed, and inseparable.”
Thom Jurek, All Music Guide
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An earlier version of "Oil & Water", released in 2002 is available
on the Intuition label in Europe only [Intuition 33292]
 Stephen
Kent>>>Songs
From the Burnt Earth
[Burnt
Earth'92]
Solo
didgeridoo recorded live in natural settings, caves and tunnels.
Ambient,
Dynamic, Rootsy.
 Stephen
Kent>>>Family
Tree[double CD - City of Tribes'97]
>>"....a
stunning collection of material taken from [Kent's] 15 year career, including
tracks from his days in Lights in a Fat City and Trance Mission..." Feedback
Monitor
>>"Disc
One concentrates on his collaborative work and Tribal Trance/Rave adventures
while Disc Two...explores more tranquil territory--a fascinating 35-minute
plus 'Deep Space' suite." Maui Beat
 Stephen
Kent>>>Landing
[City of Tribes'94]
buy
Landing from CD Baby here
>>"...
an amazing, textured landscape of layered resonating hums that massage
the mind and body into perfect spiritual accord." Oculus
Magazine
>>"...a
comprehensive exploration of the world of the didgeridoo..." Eric
Watson - URB
>>"The
eight-minute title piece...is a heady mixture of dynamic turbulence, deep-mix
samples and ambient multi-didj drone that conjures mental images of some
long-lost civilization's trek across unfriendly surreal terrain into the
unknown." Fred Mills - Magnet
 Trance
Mission>>>A
Day Out of Time [City of Tribes April
'99]
>>"While
their studio efforts have always been top notch, the sort of music that
Trance Mission produces tends to work much better in a live setting, and
this disc proves it with performances that crackle with an energy and spirit
even more vibrant than any of their previous discs."
Feedback
Monitor
 Trance
Mission>>>Head
Light [City of Tribes'96]
>>"...a
creation of vast, dark musical space and detailed labyrinths full of dream
chambers and catacombs, where you can wander through moments that expand,
compress, and fold back on one another. ..and if you want, you can dance
to it." Derk Richardson - San Francisco Bay
Guardian
>>"More
centered and higher in energy than the foursome's previous recordings,
this album transmits more of the feel of Lights in a Fat City, an earlier
Stephen Kent band, who's rawness was well-balanced by a 60's transcendental
streak that permeates all of Head Light." Cliff
Furnald - CMJ
 Trance
Mission>>>Meanwhile
[City of Tribes'94]
>>"This
is such deep, exploratory, soulful music...unlike anything I've ever heard.
It's world music, yes, but at the same time its progressive, jazzy, tribal,
traditional, jamming, driving, trance rhythms...I hear something new everytime
I put this CD on..." PG - Dirty Linen
>>"Trance
Mission joins the ranks of Jon Hassell, Steve Roach, and Robert Rich in
exploring a primal, techno-tribal music...with a lyricism that's uncommon
for the genre." Billboard
 Trance
Mission>>>Trance
Mission [City of Tribes'93]
>>"...the
digital aura remarkably marries the indigenous instrumentation with a rare
naturalness...resonates with the full flame of world-derived trance power."
Sam
Prestianni - BAM
>>"...a
unique Aboriginal, Native American, African and European fusion. Their
rhythmic, trance-inducing music for didgeridoo, drums and synthesizer makes
a perfect soundtrack for inner journeys." j.
poet - Tower Pulse!
 Lights
in a Fat City>>>Memory
Ground [City of Tibes] August'99.
>>"Lights
in a Fat City make dream music. Their craft is of cavernous space filled
with flutes, didjeridus and floating textures. The music is a liquidous
haze which lifts you from the groun and carries you to the end of the disc....
This is a much more accurate rendition of the tribal spirits than I have
heard by other artists. Highly recommended." Nirav
Soni - Ink 19
 Lights
in a Fat City>>>Somewhere
[These Records'88/City of Tribes'93]
>>"...
a strange, hypnotic, cyclical quality." Craig
Matthews - Oculus
>>"Not
smothered with pop references or washed across a beat pattern, Somewhere
points out the ceremonial relationship between musics." Todd
C. Roberts - Urb
>>"The
didj has been featured in contemporary music before, but never in such
a pure, primitive
form
so true to its spirit. This is music as travel..." LL
- Chart
 Beasts
of Paradise>>>Gathered
on the Edge [City
of Tribes'95]
>>"Virtually
nonclassifiable acoustic beauty...Each selection weaves together the primitive
and thoroughly modern in a seamless magic carpet of taste and wonder...a
stunning album whose completely individual sound and simple presentation
distinguish it from anything else in the pack. The Beasts of Paradise go
a long way toward readmitting poetics into the world of pop music both
as a sound and aesthetic." Thom Jurek - Metro
Times
>>"It
draws you in slowly, beguiling you into paying attention, picking up on
the small touches that all come together to make a wonderful, soft, tapestry,
with Eda's voice floating above it all."
Chris
Nickson - Rhythm Music Magazine
 Beasts
of Paradise>>>Nobody
Knew the Time [City of Tribes'95]
>>"Shedding
electronics, their debut EP summons a true, new strain of indigenous pop,
buoyed by the musicians' grasp of their instruments, their well-integrated
ensemble playing and the obvious emotional breadth of the music.." Darren
Bergstein - I/E Magazine
>>"...reminiscent
of the best of the spacious raga-influenced rock that San Francisco produced
almost 30 years ago when former acoustic folk combos like the Airplane,
the Dead, and Country Joe dropped acid, plugged in, and changed pop music
forever. The difference? This stuff is more interesting, better played,
and acoustic...all but irresistible." Stereophile
 Stephen
Kent, Steve Roach, Kenneth Newby>>>Halcyon
Days [Fathom'96]
>>"If
there could be a Supergroup in the world of ambient instrumental music,this
may be it. A swirling landscape of slow throb percussive rhythms, sinewy
Indonesian flute melodies and duelling didgeridoos - all morphing through
a luminous electronic veil. This trio sculpts a sound world that merges
the technological and the primal in a meeting of cyberspace and the global
village." Billboard
 Spacetime
Continuum,Terence McKenna,Stephen Kent>>>Alien
Dreamtime
[City
of Tribes Video'93 (NTSC only)]
>>"Imagine
a warped anthropology lecture crossed with a shamanic ritual andrave culture's
technophiliac-info-overload aesthetic. This video is a phenethelymine-drenched,
techno-primitive extravaganza par excellence." Whole
Earth Review
>>"Spiraling
vortexes, flowing from your reptilian stem....mesmerising, eroticizing."
Mondo
2000
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