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Hey, excuse the interruption, but I just found an online review of our recent CD, from music-reviewer.com (http://www.music-reviewer.com/10_01/minus.htm), written by Roxanne Blanford. While she gets a few things wrong (we're actually a 3-piece, with a few guests on the disc), it seems like she actually listened to the disc and got to some of our intent. The review: The Northwest USA six-member band, Minus, is far from being just an ordinary band. For starters, they are not easy to label. Are they hard rock? Are they electronic rock? Are they Funk groove rock? Are they none of the above, and at the same time, a little bit all of the above? Well, let's consider the evidence. Minus rocks, yes they do. Track number 2, "3 Bad Brothers", has a very definite "Rock n Roll Ain't Noise Pollution"-era AC/DC vibe to it. The rough n ready guitar work of Mark France is both defiant and classically rooted, while being pelted by a storm of raw and raucous drumming. Skin-man Henry Franzoni lets it rip fierce on a number of tracks, leaving no doubt at all that Minus IS a real rock n roll band. But, Minus is also pretty groovy in a funky, low key sort of way. Check out "Acid Flesh", with its seductive, jazz/funk improv stylings and lazy feedback, zizzing and zazzing through the speakers. "Tard Bop" (contemplate THAT song title for a minute!) blends sounds in a Rush-like haze with subtle bass funk inflections right out of the Herbie Hancock school. "Stoner" makes me want to start singing 'woke up in my clothes again this morning' and wonder what Andy Summers might think of my little "Shadows In The Rain" reverie. This particular cut begins with bass lines ala' The Police, then careens off into a full-on rock guitar mania, complete with grinding riffs and revved up licks. And let's not forget that Minus employs DJ Scratch n Sniff on turntables for that hip hop rock flava, and Mark France and Dave Trenkel as both producers AND multi-instrumentalist, electronic wizards have enough trickery up their sleeves to make Minus a computerized music-lover's wet dream! Dark Lit is a mostly instrumental recording, with very little true 'vocalization' at all. It's a smorgasbord of synthesized, programmed, hands-on, tweaked and peaked sounds; a spiraling, splintered array of aural transmutations. In short, Minus' fresh release is innovatively different. But, then again, what else would you expect from a far from ordinary band? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Trenkel New and Improv Music http://www.newandimprov.com improv@peak.org Now Available: Minus: Dark Lit "This is music all-consuming in its beauty and power" -Jake TenPas OSU Daily Barometer -------------------------------------------------------------------------