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Band: ICONOCLAST
Country: USA
Product title: The Dreadful Dance
Kind of product: Full-lenght CD
Release year: 2005
Label: Fang records
Genre: experimental avangarde music
Line-up: Leo Ciesa (drums, keys, grand piano, percussion, vocals, kora)
Julie Joslyn (alto saxophone, violin, live electronics, vocals, kalimba, ocarina, percussion)
Tracks: 1. Cranium Mist
2. You Know Too Much About Me
3. Bert Holds Breast
4. Midday Romp
5. EKG (Revisited)
6. Insourmontable You
7. Woman with an Index
8. Weird Sex
9. Little Sweet Weak Bitter (Take 1)
10. Hoboken
11. I Think I Thought
12. Crayfish Platter
13. Lonely Courtesan
14. Dead Dressed Girls
15. L'Orange
16. Midsummer Night's Day
17. The Corrupter
18. Who's in the Window
19. Tom Colada
20. Half Crazy
Total time: 63:05

Review: Sixth release of this interesting duo, "The Dreadful Dance" gives you the impression it is all made for fun. Well, maybe it is, but there's a good conceptual part behind it, a chaotic exposure of instrumental and vocal sounds that follow a line, line which sometimes is charming and sometimes becomes scarry, horror-ish. They are very good instrumentists, proved by the saxophone and drums parts. I would recommend this album to all bohemians, or avangarde-theatre fans. The album is so complex and has so many different parts that for example there's a track that resembles very much with a grind/noise track, although most of their music is acoustic! Try it for something new! Iconoclast's music would be perfect for Dante's "Purgatorium" or even "Hell".

Contact: www.iconoclastnyc.com