Don Caballero

[Yesspaz]

I mentioned this band way back before AM got this fancy board. I thought I'd bring them back up again. Most of the "prog" bands were listen to are promoted as such. However, as I am also into the indie scene, I've got my pulse on some other progressive bands that are ignored in the progressive market per se, yada yada yada, blah blah blah...

Everyone needs to check out Don Caballero. It's not a guy, it's a band. "Don" is a title, ala "King" Crimson or "Sgt." Pepper. They are an all instrumental band. Five albums, no vocals. They are incredible. I have their three of their albums, SINGLES BREAKING UP VOL. 1, AMERICAN DON, and FOR RESPECT. They have been compared to '80s King Crimson, minus vocals. Get yourselves some MP3s (ok to use for research, I say). Check out the piece "Ones All Over The Place."

Some tasty nuggets from reviews include "creating meticulously arranged, post-King Crimson-like songs that attack odd time signatures," -- "poly-everything instrumental workouts" -- "Don Caballero remains perhaps the only band that can appeal to Mötley Crüe fans and PhD candidates alike" -- "all-instrumental axis somewhere between Black Flag’s Damaged and King Crimson’s Red" -- and "Don Cab refined its ultra-complex sound in microscopic detail"

Interested? Here's some links to check out, the last of which are sound clips:

http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver...9/docid=117848

http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver...57/docid=13564

http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver...58/docid=21275

http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver...ID=tn_srch_txt