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Eddie the Rat — Once Around the Butterfly Bush Buy it at Amazon

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Ladders that reach up to the stratosphere of tempos weren’t possible until Eddie the Rat fell upon the indie scene back in 2000. Compositions that are made up of various rhythms, beats, and melodies all of which may be at different BPM’s are what this avant garde group excels at. You may have a piano/keyboard doing one melodic thing at a certain pace, while the bass is doing something else, over top of a cajon or recorder doing something else, all alongside other homemade instruments. It’s very intriguing and awe-inspiring to say the least. When you consider that Peter Martin plays piano while playing cajon with his left foot and a bass drum with his right foot, you know you’re dealing with a talented group of artists. Other instruments to make what Eddie the Rat dubs ‘head music for your feet’ include the glockenspiel, steel drum, triangle, Balinese gangsa, Long-Boy, Proto, Lobro, Spike, 2x6, and recorder. Inspired by European and American folk music as well as modern classical compositions and Indonesian gamelan, “Once Around the Butterfly Bush” is an album that you simply must own especially if you lick your chops at great complex rhythms.

- J-Sin

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