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Album Details

• Artist: Mark Applebaum
• Album: The Bible Without God
• Label: Innova
• Year of Release: 2005
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• Reviewed by: patchen on 2006-05-19

Noisy and ambient, brassy and rhythmic, Mark Appelbaum's Bible Without God offers many roads to salvation. By playing with genres and volume levels, and using found sounds, the band is able to create soaring colors and ambitious melodies. While this is a double CD set, there is so much going on that you want to spend the time exploring. Surprises abound, and the band does not overstay their welcome over the course of the discs. Extended tracks like "Garden of Memory," the title track, and "The Mind Altering Concert" allow the band room to stretch out and explore ideas; that this was originally commissioned in collaboration with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company gives added grace and fluidity to the pieces; aside from the images the music conjures in your mind, you can also imagine movement.

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