The Xen Series

Review
 

Xen is a musical duo consisting of David Bagsby and Kurt Rongey, who create an eponymous CD! $10.00

Listen an excerpt:
"NIC" [mp3 file]

Quotes

"...Extremely inventive, quirky, hyperbolic music...everything falls through the cracks in the XEN universe..."
- I/E

"Progressive rock...highly recommended!"
- Tulsa TV Memories.

The second Xen CD, "Master of Night", employs such mathematical schemata as the tone row, the Fibonacci sequence, and stochastic theory to create new structures and ideas, yet the music remains accessible to the intuition. $10.00

Listen an excerpt:
"Debris of Dried Cities" [mp3 file]

Quotes
"The outer fringe of progressive rock... Anything might happen at any moment... If you chopped up some Zappa, some Stockhausen, and some ELP with a lawn mower and spliced the tape segments together at random, it would fit right in with XEN." - Keyboard Magazine


"Very original, professional, recommended."
- Radio Central, Antwerp, Belgium.

"...the ferocity of the playing and the forcefulness of the drum tracks drives the music with a motor energy that only a handful of classic prog bands ever achieved." - Titus Levi, Keyboard

"...film music that doesn't need a film."
- Organ

"...as progressive as it gets."
- Doug Maynard

"...TOTALLY unique and satisfying! ...takes you on a ride you won't SOON forget...nor will you WANT to!" - Improvisation Nation

"#1 album of 1995... not merely genius; it is a spiderlike straddler of many different genre's and very possibly a keyboard fancier's wet dream... Imagine feeding a cutup rubber ball to a penguin the size of the Chrysler Building and receiving enthusiastic applause from a plethora of assembled cement bags. And then not accepting payment." - Tone Clusters (NYC)

"...a fascinating state-of-the-art aural masterpiece that is truly musical beyond belief." - Time and a Word (NYC)

"A stunning release." - Music Uncovered

"...superbly futuristic." - Asterism (USA)

"This is high brow music composed and played by two highly creative musicians. XEN would be a welcome addition to your progressive rock library." - Henry Schneider

"...it's wonderful. Excellent work."
- Mike Keneally (Zappa/Steve Vai)

"...you will come out of it washed out with a mashed brain. Entrancing, delirious, frenzied!" - Harmonie (France)

"...gales of electronic laughing gas are interrupted by slices of whirlybird rock rhythms and Zappa-esque synclavier jazz."
- I/E

"...inventive and electrifying."
- Quarter Note Laboratory

Xen Live: Recorded live in Tulsa, Oklahoma while opening for the Legendary Pink Dots. Bonus tracks from dress rehearsals from the very first Xen show also included. $10.00
To order any of these CD's, write:

Esotericity Music
P.O. Box 442354
Lawrence, KS 66044

Or contact David Bagsby at: dcb@sunflower.com



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