Regarding Purgatories, by Dave Kerman / 5uu's

Regarding Purgatories

by Dave Kerman / 5uu's

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guysegers This music sounds like family ! It has something in the construction that I recognize as in Univers Zero or Present.... Plus nice vocals....
Probably Dave Kerman adventures with some European bands have infiltrate this music.

willy vlyminck Exellent work by Dave Kerman and his band the 5uu´s from some time ago, but anyone into Rock in Opposition should own this as well as the rest of the 5uu´s collection.

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	1.	Meteora 07:31
	2.	Pinwheel 05:12
	3.	Below and Beyond 05:14
	4.	To Fall on Deaf Ears, part one 04:51
	5.	Half-Akin to Gladsome 01:44
	6.	Drachma 04:28
	7.	First Person Jocular 04:36
	8.	String of Hey-Days 02:40
	9.	Day 29 02:18
	10.	Gordion Knot 04:41
	11.	Stand on Ceremony 01:43
	12.	To Fall on Deaf Ears, part two 10:37

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Regarding Purgatories, the 5th album by drummer/composer Dave’s long-lived 5uu’s project, features a completely revamped version of the band. He has enlisted what amounts to a avant/progressive supergroup to back him here, including vocalist Deborah Perry [Thinking Plague], bassist Keith Macksoud [Present] with guest keyboardists Charles Turner [5uu’s] and Sanjay Kumar [U Totem]. The music has a new edge & this release marks a new sound for the band, as well as a break from the sound of the two previous incarnations of this band, who seem to reinvent themselves every few years.

"5uu's recorded intermittently over the years until returning in 2000 with Regarding Purgatories. While credited to both Dave Kerman and the 5uu's, the Cuneiform CD is primarily a solo vehicle for composer and multi-instrumentalist Kerman, who wrote all the music and performs much of it on overdubbed guitars, keyboards, drums, bass, vocals, and noisy effects. Regarding Purgatories is an intriguing CD that should appeal to many fans of the European RIO groups and their spinoffs, particularly the Art Bears, a post-Henry Cow trio featuring guitarist Fred Frith, drummer Chris Cutler, and vocalist Dagmar Krause.
The recording has a dark and Gothic mood similar to the Art Bears and early King Crimson. Kerman favors dense constructions with layers of distorted guitars and keyboards driven by martial drumbeats and unconventional percussion. Irregular melodies and skewed rhythms are interspersed with sinister drones and chants and embellished with buzzing, clanking, scraping, and other abrasive sounds. Not exactly a walk in the park, Regarding Purgatories is rather heavy going at times but still compelling by virtue of its sheer sonic inventiveness...." – AllMusic

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released May 16, 2000

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Cuneiform Records is a record label releasing adventurous, boundary-bursting music by artists from around the world. They have always championed an eclectic mixture of musical styles and artists and have consistently danced at the dangerous intersection where genres meet. In doing so, they have become one of the most prominent labels of New Music.

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