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Tag: Paul Masvidal

  • Where Pat Metheny and Nachtmystium Overlap

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    Image via Wikipedia From NYTimes.com, a comparison of the similarities of jazz and metal. Jazz stages and metal stages are places where a certain kind of experimentation happens: brainy and cabalistic, with a hint of a smile. Both increasingly depend on educated virtuosos. In both genres you can develop curious harmonic worlds, warp the tempos,…

  • Cynic mixes it up with extreme metal and avant-garde jazz

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    Sean Reinert (via last.fm) This is a bit of an indulgence on my part – an interview with the founder of Cynic. Though nurtured in the humid birthplace of modern death metal, Miami, Florida’s Cynic never really fit in with its more brutal peers. Despite having played on Death’s pivotal album Human (Relativity/Sony, 1991), childhood…