Nick Millevoi, In White Sky, Tape or Free Download

Anybody who reads this blog regularly (or maybe I should start "If anybody...". . . no I do have regular readers and I thank them much!) will know I've been covering avant guitarist and electrician Nick Millevoi in various guises on this page. He's back, not that he ever left, with an unaccompanied solo spot In White Sky (The Flenser) (http://theflenser.com/nick-millevoi-in-white-sky-tapefree-download/).

It's a good workout of avant psychedelia with some biting, kicking and scratching feedback sustain going on and imaginative noise happening on top. This as usual is not exactly pablum for the masses. It's out there. It's psychedelic. It's very electric.

But that is why he is good. To be creative with something my cohorts and I used to fool around with in garages in New Jersey warms my heart. We knew it was something musically good, when it was, and if Hendrix started it (actually it started a little earlier) there was still plenty of room for creative souls to come up with poetic chaos.

Nick is such a soul. This one is off the wall in just the right ways. And you can either get the tape or a free download by pasting the link above into your browser. Yowser!

Base 3: Serious Space Jams On "Live From Planet Earth"

Base 3 kick up plenty of dust on their second CD, Live From Earth (1K 017), featuring two generous sets of very spacey music. Base 3 is Tim Motzer on baritone guitar, Barry Meehan, bass, and Doug Hirlinger at the drums.

This is impromptu psychedelia at its best. Doug's drums put solid footing underneath the cosmic ambiance. He sometimes gets into choppy staccato funk things that readily identify him as original. Barry's bass functions often as a second solo-space voice, more so than a full-time riff factory and that frees up the music considerably. Tim gets maximum stellar drive going with Floydish mother-ship aeronautics, high-sustain melodics, cosmic hammerings-on and musical sequences of high interest.

This is music to mellow into, then set sail for the heart of the sun. What's most impressive is how they can keep interest high with the things they come up with. They don't repeat themselves and they keep to a mood and develop it nicely over long stretches.

One of the best set of space jams I've heard in a long time. Recommended!