Musicians:
Shawn Persinger - guitar
Matt Eiland - bass
Greg Hiser - violin
Rocky Cancelose - drums

Track Listing:
December 17th (3:22)
Good King Friday (2:38)
Spiders (4:57)
Sleeping (1:17)
Neither (2:54)
Copper Ink (9:51)
Conversations With Ellis (3:43)
Coal Boxes And Daisy Cutters (3:35)
Lincoln (5:23)
Jupiter (7:42)
The Miller's Tale (1:18)
The Quince Ree (5:07)

"Astronomy Made Easy" was Boud Deun's second album, the follow-up to "Fiction And Several Days" (1995). I'm astounded by Boud Deun's technically skills and their thrilling all-instrumental avant-garde compositions with odd rhythms, dissonant chord progressions and magnificent performances. And they have enough variation to keep up the listener's interest.

Although the music seems rather unstructured, I get a feeling that it's actually well structured, just like Frank Zappa's music used to be. Imagine a mixture between Dixie Dregs, Kansas (the violin-playing), King Crimson (the "Red"-era), Mahavishnu Orchestra and Return To Fantasy.

Unfortunately Boud Deun has split-up, but their music lives on. As the music is really intricate and challenging, I suppose that it's best appreciated by other musicians, but everyone who's into non-commercial music on the boundaries to jazz-fusion should like this album. Also listen to: Boud Deun "The Stolen Bicycle" from 1998.

Released by CUNEIFORM: RUNE 91

Contact & Info:
Cuneiform Records
P.O. Box 8427
Silver Spring, MD 20907
USA
Website: http://cuneiformrecords.com/
E-mail: cuneiway@aol.com

Discography:
Fiction And Several Days (1995)
Astronomy Made Easy (1997)
The Stolen Bicycle (1998)

Reviewer: Greger Rönnqvist
greger.ronnqvist@infodata.sema.se