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In A Different City

Bablicon

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An up and coming band out of Chicago, Bablicon's first full-length effort takes a lot of chances, falters, and stumbles its way to several glorious moments. The decidedly experimental group is made up of Jeremy Barnes of Neutral Milk Hotel on drums, sound artist/engineer Griffin Rodriguez on bass, and composer and jazz aficionado Dave McDonell on multiple instruments. As an album, In a Different City is all over the map. Drawing on Captain Beefheart, metal, jazz, and even classical influences (the DePaul Symphony Orchestra guests on a track), Bablicon cooks up a wildly inventive, postmodern mélange of music. By turns noisy, quiet, vibrant, and muddy, each song on the album explores a different type of formal territory, creating a discontinuous map of style. As an experiment, it's all good, but it's only a precursor of things to come. The album is nothing like the group's excellent concerts — which are raw, magnificent, free jazz metal rock death knells. Listeners will just have to wait for an album that captures them.

Biography

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '90s, '00s

The trio that comprise Bablicon — the Diminisher, Marta Tennae, and Blue Hawaii — play music that draws from experimental jazz, fusion, rock, Indian music, and contemporary composition, but elude easy fits into any of these categories. In that respect they do fit in with the late-1990s Chicago "post-rock" scene. Presumably, they are from Chicago, as their debut LP, In a Different City, was recorded in an abandoned machine shop there; indeed, it was so close to Chicago's elevated train...
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