McGill, Manring, Stevens - Controlled By Radar (2002)

Tracklist

CD1

1 Umkhonto We Sizwe
2 Argentine Scalp Massage
3 (In Walked) Bogus Boy
4 Have Sex Get Paid - Part II
5 Cortex of Desire
6 Lumumba
7 Cash From Chaos
8 I Am Totally Controlled By Radar
9 Puff Johnson
10 Babbar Khalsa
11 Cryptology
12 F.E.S.

CD2

1 A Darkness Fell Upon Us
2 Chicago Hot Plate
3 Madinat Ash Shab
4 He Is Invisible He Cannot Be Seen
5 Hyacinth
6 Lucious En Fuego
7 Matrix
8 Montana Realty Company
9 A Winter's Tale
10 Seven Are Her Sisters


personnel :

Drums And Percussion – Vic Stevens
Electric & Acoustic Fretted & Fretless Guitars And 12 String Acoustic Guitar – Scott McGill
Fretless Electric And Acoustic Basses – Michael Manring

Like Kiss the Frog, McGill Manring Stevens is a fusion supergroup comprised of players who kept encountering each other at gigs and session dates before deciding to join forces. Comprised of bassist Michael Manring, guitarist Scott McGill, and drummer Vic Stevens, the band's second album, Controlled by Radar, is a sprawling two-disc affair. Organized into two discs -- one electric ("right brain") and one acoustic ("left brain") -- the music dives and turns all over the map, held together only by their virtuosity. Occasionally, the fretless bass, swirling guitars, classical-style acoustic guitar, and new agey textures become a little too light, but -- for the most part -- the band keeps things quite interesting over the discs' 22 tracks.~Jesse Jarnow