Uncle Moe's Space Ranch

Brett Garsed | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 23, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Tone Center
• ASIN: B00005QW05
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #145,812 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Colliding Chimps

2. [e-mail]

3. Swarming Goblets

4. SighBorg

5. He's Havin' All That's His to Be Had

6. Minx

7. I Want a Pine Cone

8. A Thousand Days

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars kick ass fusion !, April 28, 2004

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This review is from: Uncle Moe's Space Ranch (Audio CD)

Let there be this type of music everywhere.These days there are so much MUZAK,or crap smooth jazz on the INTERNET RADIO.HARD CORE JAZZ FUSION FANS are willing to approove of this blast of furious sounds.The band members are killing me like a edge of the knife.This is another "TRIBAL TECH" sound.No more donkey smooth jazz,let there be aggressive hard core fusion.This CD never disappoints you,I bet.Blast off your frustration with this CD!!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rock-Jazz Fusion of the New Millennium, January 7, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Uncle Moe's Space Ranch (Audio CD)

The album's first tune, Colliding Chimps, picks up where Tribal Tech's Rocket Science left off with Astro Chimp, pounding the listener with Chambers's explosive drum fills leading to a soaring rock riff. From that point on, a gang of five fuzoid renegades at Uncle Moe's ushers the listener into a musical phantasmagoria never heard before. Many of the songs spiral with wonderfully twisted changes of styles and moods, keeping the listener riveted to the chair or making her shoot through the ceiling (depending on how she reacts to pumping adrenaline).

A slew of influences are apparent on this album: good ol' jazz-rock, rock-jazz, Eastern music, Middle-Eastern music, techno/electronica, hip-hop, kangaroos, southern rock, funk, Allan Holdsworth, New Orleans, Tribal Tech, Robocop, heavy metal, rattlesnakes, progressive rock, etc. Yet they skillfully and artfully melt them all in a kind of tongue-twisting rock-fusion stew that defies characterization, as good fusion should defy any attempt for characterization. I've been listening to fusion since the early '70s, but I've never heard anything quite like this.

Although each player is virtuosic and dazzling, I hear no gratuitous display of ego or pomposity. On the contrary, everyone does his own thing with passion and kinetic energy, at times with a sense of off-kilter humor, contributing to make an organic whole. This is not a "deep" piece of music, not in the sense of Mahavishnu; if you want self-contemplative music, look elsewhere. This is for the most part rave-up, balls-to-the-wall, jovial album full of twisted, mesmerizing complexity that needs to be heard with a devil-may-care attitude. Yet the music is strangely evocative. The album is an actual proof of the proverbial: sometimes the right combination of musicians engenders a fresh, magical result.

Dennis Chambers lays down his patented, continually thrilling drumming; he has a lot to do with the success of this album. What propels Uncle Moe's into high flight is his soulful drumming with sheer power, funk groove, and pyrotechnics.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The New Jazz Fusion, October 3, 2002

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"bs597" (Boston, Mass USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Uncle Moe's Space Ranch (Audio CD)

Finally a band that dares to stretch the meaning of the word "Jazz Fusion". This is a CD that takes the listener on a musical journey packed with influences from many styles...but nothing direct. The term "Jazz" used to mean new..fresh..cutting edge. Teamed up with the term "Fusion" ...for rock influenced, one should expect some very interesting results. Uncle Moe's Space Ranch lives up to the challenge! Fresh ideas, beautiful playing, total interaction...Only a hand full of bands in the last 20 years have sparked my imagination like this one. I highly recomend this CD to anyone who longs for a breath of fresh air. Not only is UMSR groundbreaking musicaly, but the recording quality is exceptional, giving the listener with a good system a REAL treat! Turn it up and enjoy the trip!