Music Review: Don Harris's Sugar Cane's Got the Blues and Pork Pie's Transitory - Page 2

The sheer talent and musicianship of these players is evident and, like the Sugar Cane album, the band wastes no time ripping into a serious groove with the first song, “Epoch”.   The album continues on to break down the barriers between rock, electronic, psychedelia, and free jazz elements, and never relents.  This may all sound like it's a difficult listen, but it is far from it.  Pork Pie manages to combine all of these far out elements with a repeat listenability.

In fact, both of these excellent 70’s fusion re-releases manage to pull off that difficult task.  And the sound on these remasters is perfect.  Most Promising Sound’s motto is “to make music lovers happy’ and they have done just that to this music lover.  I will be sure to keep an eye on the interesting material that they choose to release next… it’s sure to be 'most promising'!

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