Gruvis Malt - Maximum Unicorn (2005)
Artist: Gruvis Malt
Title: Maximum Unicorn
Year Of Release: 2005
Label: Self-Released
Genre: Jazz-Rock, Prog Rock, Funk
Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+cue, log, scans)
Total Time: 1:17:11
Total Size: 179 mb / 288 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Title: Maximum Unicorn
Year Of Release: 2005
Label: Self-Released
Genre: Jazz-Rock, Prog Rock, Funk
Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+cue, log, scans)
Total Time: 1:17:11
Total Size: 179 mb / 288 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
This album is a major departure for Grüvis Malt in many ways. Compositionally, this is the sound of a band giving up. Whereas before every note and inspiration was debated over and eventually abandoned/altered, now anything was acceptable... the more fleeting or amusing the better.
This is probably the closest Grüvis Malt has ever come to honesty. It is a theme album to the fullest (the most "Maximum" you might say), and lends itself to the widest interpretation of any of GM's work. Though one of the shortest GM releases to date, Maximum Unicorn traverses the widest musical terrain.
This is probably the closest Grüvis Malt has ever come to honesty. It is a theme album to the fullest (the most "Maximum" you might say), and lends itself to the widest interpretation of any of GM's work. Though one of the shortest GM releases to date, Maximum Unicorn traverses the widest musical terrain.
:: TRACKLIST ::
1. Prelude (01:32)
2. Thomas Jackson (03:40)
3. Monster Hands (02:44)
4. Since 1968 (04:02)
5. Mr. Smith Goes To Heaven (03:24)
6. The First Train (02:50)
7. Interlude/Marco Polo (02:21)
8. The American Trilogy (Prologue: Method Actors/Domestic Violence) (01:34)
9. The American Trilogy (Scene 1: Deadman's Drop) (01:08)
10. The American Trilogy (Scene 2: Joe Returns From The Front) (02:10)
11. No Rest For The Wicked Awesome (04:24)
12. Percy (47:22)
All songs written by Gruvis Malt.
Gavin Castleton - keyboards, vocals, string arrangements, melophone, cornet, programming, guitar on track 7
Brendan Bell - vocals, percussion, keyboards, guitars on track 6
Steve Geuting - guitars
Erik Nilsson - tenor and alto saxophones, clarinets, flute
Scott McPhail - trapkit
Justin Abene - bass guitar
Jim Clark - narration
Jenny Lederer - british
Danny Bensi - cello
Jessica Hipp - violin