From Dave Segal Sent Wed, Jun 30th 1999, 22:25
>From: Kelley Hackett <xxxxxxxx@xxx.xxxxx.xxx> >To: xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx >Subject: (idm) Urban Sax >Date: Wed, Jun 30, 1999, 5:22 PM > >I once heard of a guy called Jobere Artman, and a group called Urban >Sax----- >I taped a show from Echoes about 5years ago in which Urban Sax played in >NYC....... > >Any of you Blokes have a make on this cat or this group? > >Supposedly, one song had 45 saxophones playing at once, and it was quite >original, and pleasant..... > > >Thanks for any and all help! > >Hk! You're referring to Gilbert Artman, a drummer/keyboardist/saxophonist who led the amazing French group Lard Free before he started Urban Sax [a band I haven't heard]. Lard Free have 4 albums available through Spalax, a French label that specializes in reissuing psychedelic/prog-rock/krautrock classics [I think Forced Exposure and Other Music would have most if not all of their catalog in stock]. All date from the 70s and all are worth owning. Lard Free created a blend of psychedelic jazz fusion and spacey electronics that sounds like no other band on earth (except for one track that resembles a track on Miles' Bitches Brew). The albums are Gilbert Artman's Lard Free, I'm Around About Midnight, III [Roman numeral 3] and Unnamed. Begin with III, which is one of the most amazing-sounding albums I've ever heard. It's such an alien piece of music, an overwhelming vortex of unpeggable cosmic sounds that never fails to astound me. Dave Segal Managing Editor/Alternative Press Reviews/BPM/Reissue Redux/Origins Of Cool Secret Ions on WCSB Thursdays 9-11PM EST www.wcsb.org