By: Robert Silverstein
ven though they've been compared to legends like King Crimson, Ozric Tentacles and even the more esoteric elements of the Grateful Dead, California-based Djam Karet continue paving their own unique road since they started out just about 20 years ago. Still featuring guitarists Gayle Ellett and Mike Henderson, the group-also featuring Henry J. Osborne (bass) and Chuck Oken, Jr.-are joined by bassist Aaron Kenyon on their 2003 album A Night For Baku. The group's seventh album for the Maryland-based Cuneiform Records, Baku is a mind-boggling fusion of psychedelia, hard rock, progressive, fusion surf music and electronica. In lesser hands, that would be a recipe for musical disaster, but Djam Karet continues to mature and A Night At Baku shines as one of the group's finest recordings yet. A band of gifted art-rockers who continue to blow musical minds, Djam Karet must be heard, or better, seen, to be fully appreciated.
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