It is difficult in these days of post-everything to claim a form as new; that said Lisle Ellis' homage to the tragically deceased visual artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is a rollercoaster of a listen, challenging and accessible in a disarmingly direct way...It's an exciting listen, drawing heavily on several musical genres and falling neatly into none. It's far removed from what Basquiat might call "Samo Samo."

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...deliciously unpredictable...Cities And Eyes is a thrilling ride; get on board.

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Olson waxes madly adventurous into cerebral territory at the same time, making music the listener can feel. No mean feat.

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Henceforth Records is proud to release, on January 5, 2010, its 7th CD, Incidental, by Minneapolis based composer Mike Olson. The music encapsulates his new approach to composition, but its diversity, intellectual rigor and sheer sonic splendor make it right at home in our Henceforth catalog.

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Cities and Eyes is music in the broadest sense, made for a specific, not generalized audience, evoking the stark nakedness of metropolitan rat race life. At once industrial, futuristic, and multi-cultural, it represents musique concrète performance art taken to the extreme.

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