This is the CD aging Gen-X's ears have been screaming for. Bucketrider, a postmodernist band, tells the tale of what is accepted as the death of modernism in "the events" of Paris 1968.
The CD rocks hard and free, but "l'événements" itself is a suite that veers from intense free jazz to delicate duets to fragile beautiful sonic experiments. Other elements of the bucketrider sound are there: tour-de-force rock pieces open and close the CD, punctuated by detours into Jap noise, microtonality, and sonic flotsam.
Timothy O'Dwyer (various saxophones) has again been the major composer of the works on this release but David Brown (various bass and electric guitars) has also been at work here and the results show a significant shift by bucketrider into the territory of heavy experimental rock. This was in evidence as they blitzed the audience when supporting Sonic Youth at the Forum with an extremely intense set that dropped unsuspecting jaws. The other band members make up the usual quintet: Adam Simmons (that man again on saxophones and piccolo), James Wilkinson (trombone) and Sean Baxter (drums, junk and percussion). Guests are Judi Mitchell (oboe) and Philip Samartzis (AKS synthi).
This is a major work from one of the most important intellectual bands on the planet. It weaves many of the strands of current musical experimentation into a coherent forceful statement that demands attention.
