Articles by Eric Hill

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  Paul Cram Orchestra

  Campin' Out

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  This ten-piece ensemble has the outward appearance of a jazz entity, but lurking in its heart is an ecstatic Lalo Schifrin. The five live p...

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  All the Dead Pilots

  Easily Lost in the Present

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  If they can make deluxe DVDs with extra audio commentary tracks you can turn on, why can’t they make deluxe CDs where you can turn the voca...

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  Lower Forty-Eight

  Halfback

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  The guys from Lower Forty-Eight are brainy rockers. They prove it in their long song titles (i.e. "In the Shadow of The Great Emancipator")...

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  Craig Taborn

  Light Made Lighter

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  On his first U.S. release as a bandleader, pianist Taborn avoids the pitfalls that mar many modern jazz albums: over-reliance on standards...

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  Sex Mob

  Does Bond

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  Other than 2001: A Space Odyssey and that Kenny Loggins song the gopher danced to in Caddyshack, James Bond's theme music is probably the m...

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  Holzkopf

  Only A Bad Harvest Can Save Us

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2002

  Holzkopf is Jake Hardy, a Saskatoon, SK, native. That a minimal techno/digital noise scene probably doesn't exist in Saskatchewan makes lit...

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  Per Mission

  A Ritual Loop

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2002

  Understated and somewhat opaque; moody and minimal; mainly beat-driven and made for post-twilight listening are just a few descriptions tha...

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  Piedmont Sorpid

  WilberForce

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2002

  In a move away from his past modus of tape manipulation married to saturated guitar sound, CJ Einar now explores territory closer to the "p...