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Reviews > List of all reviews CMJ New Music Report | November 29, 1993 Vol.36 No. 12 Issue 359By James Lien Most but not all of the A&R hounds who wanted to see Thumper and Halcion at the Delancy Bar on Thursday got there too late to see Ui, perhaps the most exciting unknown band to play the entire convention. For the uninitiated, Ui is an eclectic Manhattan power trio, compromised of two bassists and a drummer, whose music embraces all manner of low frequencies and intensities, from deep space jazz to dub reggae to funk to big-band-era Talking Heads. The band’s meticulously crafted, insidiously syncopated groove constructions conjured up a throbbing vision of the Meters-as-Brazilian-dub-reggae-band, as Ui debuted spacious, beat-saturated, rhythmically dense instrumental songs from it’s forthcoming 12” EP… |
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