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| Call them a space-age jam band if you must! Escapade's spacy, groove-driven sound takes the Dead's penchant for extended jam sessions and mixes it with an unhealthy dose of cosmic radiation. Each Escapade song is spontaneously composed -- that is to say, improvised. Thus each song on Citrus Cloud Cover (Wow! A double CD!) is marked by that sense of experimentation, of danger, that accompanies free improvisation. The good news for you, gentle martian, is that Escapade is consistently able to pull it off. The almost-two-hours of music contained in these recordings is fresh, forward-looking and manages to maintain momentum despite its freeform nature. Those of you beasties who caught the Orion Space-Rock Festival in Baltimore last year will be familiar with the tracks "Undermine" and "Ovemine" (they were recorded live there), fine examples of the Escapade aesthetic. First a groove is established, then it waxes and wanes as repetitive rhythmic patterns are added and subracted from it, while disembodied sounds float from speaker to speaker like so much drifting space dust. Aliens of the universe unite! After that, let's sit back and enjoy a nice glass of Citrus Cloud Cover! |
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