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- Artist(s): Ryan Sawyer, Greg Coates, Wilder Zoby, Andres Renteria
- Summary: The latest full-length release from Osees' John Dwyer features improvised collaborations with Greg Coates, Anders Renteria, Ryan Sawyer, and Wilder Zoby.
- Record Label: Castle Face
- Genre(s): Jazz, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Experimental Rock, Fusion, Improvisation
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Positive: 2 out of 4
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Mixed: 2 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4
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Dec 16, 2021Like all of Dwyer's improv collaborations, Gong Splat has the anything-goes feel one would expect from an impromptu jam session, but there's something in this one's combination of cosmic glide and shocked-out panic that elevates it beyond the previous releases.
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UncutDec 16, 2021A crawling, paranoiac jazz-funk odyssey. It might be the best of these Dwyer & Co records to date. [Feb 2022, p.28]
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Dec 16, 2021The tracks that work on this album would fit perfectly on a spooky science fiction soundtrack, but the remaining songs really drag the collection down.
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MojoDec 16, 2021As with all such improvised projects, Gong Splat is as much about the journey as the destination, but there's little meandering to Dwyer's questing. [Feb 2022, p.87]
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Dec 23, 2021
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