Artist: Lost Tribe
Genre(s):
Dance
Jazz
Rock
Discography:
Gamemaster (Disc Two)
Year: 1999
Tracks: 3
Many Lifetimes
Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
Soulfish
Year: 1994
Tracks: 11
Lost Tribe didn't so much start up out as a band only as a collective of first-class studio musicians working on the side. Like the 1970s British mathematical group Brand X (Phil Collins' jazz spinal fusion alter ego getaway from Genesis), Lost Tribe became a melting potful of the styles popular in the 1990s, mixture rhythmical jazz and rock with regular some rap elements. Saxophonist David Binney's sparse lines and the twin-guitar rape of Adam Rogers and David Gilmore blended above the rhythmic muscle of bassist Fima Ephron and drummer Ben Perowsky on Lost Tribe's self-titled 1993 debut CD. Most of the music was instrumental, just the occasional rap data track ("Letter to the Editor") and chanted vocal ("Mofungo") provided a changeup 'tween dizzying jazz fusion pieces like "Mythology" and "Suit & Effect." The group's 1994 followup, Soulfish, was regular harder-edged without losing whatever rhythmic nidus. Perowsky's earsplitting drumming on "Whodunit" and the guitar interplay on "Minute Story," "Planet Rock," and "Blurred Logic" made for a nouveau coalition of casimir Funk and metal. But barely as a collective from the rap-jazz-opera hybrid the Screaming Headless Torsos (Ephron), jazz coalition guitar player Mike Stern (Perowsky) and African-influenced jazz saxist Steve Coleman (Gilmore) was compulsory for Lost Tribe's elementary sound, the nature of the school term musicians' wolf had to signal an eventual retardation. Binney released solo CDs and Rogers focused on self-employed work while Ephron, Perowsky, and Gilmore (ever-confused with Pink Floyd guitar player David Gilmour) toured and recorded elsewhere over the future four-spot long time. By the time Lost Tribe released Many Lifetimes in 1998, Gilmore had left hand the band, as much to pursue precept as playing. The titles unequaled ("The River," "Kyoto," "Jordan River") signaled a kinder, gentler, and more than melodic Lost Tribe -- just non without igneous moments, specially from Ephron and Perowsky. Adding pleximetry and Fender Rhodes galvanising forte-piano to his regular duties on Many Lifetimes, the regular touring drummer for Stern shows wherefore there's no route -- letdown after the guitarist records with virtuosos like Dennis Chambers or Vinnie Colaiuta. And the salient yet virtually nameless bassist is now a piece of both guitarist David Fiuczynski's vocal (Screaming Headless Torsos) and implemental (Headless Torsos) groups, so there's no tattle when Lost Tribe testament be in session (in the studio or on stage) again.
