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Bruford Levin Upper Extremities 1998

art rock, avant-garde, instrumental rock, progressive rock 56 min 12 tracks Discipline Global Mobile

Bruford Levin Upper Extremities is a self-titled album by the band Bruford Levin Upper Extremities. It is their only studio recording, released on Tony Levin's independent label Papa Bear Records. Formed by bassist Levin and drummer Bill Bruford, the group also included guitarist David Torn and trumpeter Chris Botti. Torn, Bruford and Levin had recorded together on Torn's album Cloud About Mercury ten years before this.

art rock avant-garde instrumental rock progressive rock rock

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Character

Spare, cool, contemporary and intimate.

sparerichly built
cooloverwhelming
contemporary

Tracks

1Cerulean Sea / Interlude7:34
2Original Sin4:59
3Etude Revisited5:02
4A Palace of Pearls (on a blade of grass) / Interlude5:59
5Fin de Siecle5:28
6DrumBass0:60
7Cracking the Midnight Glass6:11
8Torn DrumBass0:59
9Thick With Thin Air3:33
10Cobalt Canyons / Interlude4:31
11Deeper Blue4:18
12Presidents Day6:30

12 tracks, 56 minutes.

About the album

Artist: Bruford Levin Upper Extremities
Label: Discipline Global Mobile
Released: 1998
Type: Album
Format: CD
Country: GB

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