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Chronometers

by The Muffins

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Chronometers is an excellent collection of home and studio demos from the band's earliest period, when they were a quintet.

These 1975/76 recordings feature the band at their most Canterburian and especially at their most Hatfield-like. This is the band as I knew them when I first met them and these tapes - very carefully worked on to make them sound quite good from their very primitive genesis - is a loving tribute to a great band in their formative years, when they had more cats than fans....

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"Chronometers is a selection of early works by the jazzy, Canterbury-influenced Muffins. It consists of demo recordings by the 1975-1976 lineup of the band...Whilst you might expect the sound quality of some mid-1970s demo tapes to be a bit shaky, actually the release sounds remarkably fresh - evidently the original engineering was pretty decent and the tapes were well-preserved.

In fact, some of the tunes flow together in such a way that it's hard not to see this as more than a mere odds and sods collection, but a lost Muffins double album in its own right; the general aesthetic approach is reasonably consistent throughout, as you'd expect given that this was recorded over a reasonably tight span of time by the same lineup. I wouldn't say it's quite on the level of the band's excellent debut, Manna/Mirage, but it's certainly getting there." - rateyourmusic

credits

released January 1, 1993

Stuart Abramowitz - drums
Dave Newhouse - Fender Rhodes, Yamaha organ, multi-woodwinds, voice
Tom Scott - multi-woodwinds, percussion, voice
Billy Swann - electric zoom bass, voice, percussion
Mike Zentner - guitar, violin, voice

1. Recorded at the band house, Gaithersburg, MD, Spring, 1976.
2-21. Recorded direct to stereo (no overdubs) at Paragon Studio, Silver Spring, MD, November 1975.

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Founded in 1984.
Based in Washington D.C.

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