Master Cylinder
Master Cylinder
Genres: Canterbury Scene, electronic, Progressive rock, Progressive, jazz-rock
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About Master Cylinder
There are two artists associated with the name Master Cylinder: 1) A Texas based jazz-rock band 2) A solo artist named Peter du Charme 1) Hard-to-find but good jazz rock with a Canterbury flair at times from this Texas-based group. Lineup includes keys, guitar, bass, and drums, but various guest play woodwind and brass instruments, and there’s even a Serge modular keyboardist! A promo writeup states: “The music of Master Cylinder is a smooth blend of everything from tight ensemble composition to totally free improvisation; complex layers of polyrhythms to surging waves of pure sound; sections and bits of compostion surfacing from the flow and then redissolving". "On the usually soulless Inner City label, Master Cylinder was anything but that. Their album "Elsewhere" has a strong melodic sense, and it seems the group must've been informed by the Canterbury groups like early Soft Machine or National Health, as well as the DC based Happy the Man. While ostensibly a jazz album, it's these rock elements that bring Master Cylinder to the next level. A very good album that time has forgot". (Thomashayes) 2) Peter du Charme recorded the song "Jung at Heart" under the name "Master Cylinder". It was written for a Volkswagen Jetta ad that appeared briefly in 2000. The ad was created by the Boston agency Arnold Worldwide. He has since released the original song under his own name. You can download it for free here: http://peterducharme.bandcamp.com/track/jung-at-heart.
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