![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Of particular interest are Bardo Pond, Urdog, and Miminokoto's extended pieces, all wonderful (and diverse) takes on psychedelic rock. More importantly, the music rules, with several excellent, daring, provocative pieces and only a few average tracks. Black Forest/Black Sea's Jeffrey Alexander took care of the eye candy, while Last Visible Dog mogul Chris Moon selected the tracks and Urdog's Jeff Knoch composed one of his entertainingly obscure essays. Every contribution is dedicated to an extinct animal species (about which some information is included), a theme also picked up throughout the artwork of this lavish set. Like the more modestly sized 2003 compilation Invisible Pyramid, this Elegy Box draws its inspiration from the writings of naturalist Loren Eiseley. The menu is quite diverse, but always revolves around the axis one can draw between electric psychedelic rock and experimental acoustic music - a line that also goes through free improv and drone music. ![]() The list of contributors offers a cross section of the Last Visible Dog family of artists, with particularly important looks at the Scandinavian, Italian, Japanese, and Rhode Island scenes. But the numbers surrounding this box set are staggering: six discs, for a total of seven and a half hours of music 31 artists, each given an EP-long slot. With its triple sets devoted to Uton, My Cat Is an Alien, and MCMS, the small independent label Last Visible Dog is not known for shortchanging the underground music enthusiast, to say the least. ![]()
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