Cf.  U Totem, Motor Totemist Guild, Present

Une des branches les plus prometteuses et innovantes d'un certain regard sur le rock "avant-prog". L'idée, c'est toujours de créer quelque chose de neuf, un peu à la manière des anciens du Rock In Opposition.
Références absolues de l'émission OPPOSITION DE PHASE , en particulier:
Science group: ... A mere coincidence...
THinking PLague: IN Extremis
5UU's: Hunger's teeth

THINKING PLAGUE: ...A THINKING PLAGUE (1984)
Mike Johnson, Bob Drake...

5 UU's: BAR CODE (EP, 1985)
-Hot and cold frog
-Misery loves company

Jon Beck: bass
David Kerman: drums, pianos
Curt Wilson: voc
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Lynn Johnston: woodwinds
Chuk Turner: keyb
Kan Ando: guit

5 UU's: BEL MARDUK & TIAMAT (1986)
-Theme from Marduk & Tiamat
-The scale of life
-Compromition
-Loyalty to creation
-Ancient internationalism
-The fear of life (after death)
-Sporting
-Magic, dogma and faith

Jon Beck: bass
David Kerman: drums, keyb
Curt Wilson: voc
Randy Coleman: guit
Greg Conway: guit
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Dan Malouin: bass
Jim Norman: piano

5 UU's with the MOTOR TOTEMIST GUILD: ELEMENTS (1986)
-Ignominies
-Imperfections
-Resentments
-Acknowledgements
-Elements
-In life's hands
-The artist
-Causes of merit
-The futility of oneness

Jon Beck: bass
David Kerman: drums, keyb, guit
Curt Wilson: voc
Greg Conway: guit
Sanjay Kumar: keyb
and the MTG:
James Grigsby: bass, keyb, guit, vibes, snake flute, trumpet
Emily Hay: flute
Becky Heininger: cello
Lynn Johnston: woddwinds
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Ken Ando: guit
Gene Carl: piano
Eric Johnson: bassoon
Chuk Turner: keyb

THINKING PLAGUE: MOONSONGS (1987)
Mike Johnson, Bob Drake, Suzanne Lewis...

THE RASCAL REPORTERS: HAPPY ACCIDENTS (1988):
Weigh in on the way-out:
-Pilgrim's pride
-The Chalky substance variations
-Karen's Chalky pilgrim
Trucks:
-Thunderstruck
-Moonstruck

Steve Gore: keyb, elec guit, bass, melodica, drum set, percu, voice
Steve Kretzmer: keyb, melodica, elec guit, bass, drum set, percu
GUESTS:
Didkovsky: guit (from DOCTOR NERVE)
Steve Feigenbaum: guit
Lecy Fredo: violin
James Grigby: percu (from MOTOR TOTEMIST GUILD)
Dave Kerman: percu (from 5UU's)
Paul Kretzmer: bass
Dave Newhouse: flûte, sax (from THE MUFFINS)
Guy Segers: bass (from UNIVERS ZERO)

THINKING PLAGUE: IN THIS LIFE (1989)
Mike Johnson: guitars, sythesizer.
Bob Drake: bass, drums, violin, sythesiser.
Susanne Lewis: voice, guitar.
Mark Harris: woodwinds.
Shane Hotle: keyboards.
Maria Moran: bass, guitar.
Lawrence Haugseth: clarinet, keyboards.
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Fred Frith: guitar.
Mark Fuller: percussion, Indonesian instruments.
Eric Moon: keyboards.

HAIL: TURN OF THE SCREW (1991)

ROBERT DRAKE: WHAT DAY IS IT ? (1993)
-The house
-Weeds
-The statue
-Rainy
-Spiders
-The drawing
-Plates
-Going somewhere
-The sawblade
-Death valley
-The 13th animal
-Precarious glimmering
-The cemetery trees
-Good evening

Robert Drake: all guit, basses, voc, violin, organ, drums, perc, rec and mix
David Kerman: drums

5 UU's: HUNGER'S TEETH (1994)
-Well...not chickenshit
-Roan
-Mangate
-Geronimo
-Glue
-Opportunity bangs
-The shears
-Bachelor needle
-Truth, justice and the american way
-Equus
-Traveler waits for no one

Sanjay Kumar: keyb, etc.
David Kerman: drums, guit, keyb, etc.
Robert Drake: voc, basses, guit, violins, etc.
Thomas DiMuzio: electric and computer generated sounds
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Suzanne Lewis: voc
James Grigsby: guitar solo, vibes, bass
Michelle Bos: ustensils, penny fountain, skydivving ocarinas, metal tables, creaks, blue rocks

THE (EC)NUDES: VANISHING POINT (?)
 Chris Cutler, Amy Demio, Wädi Gysi + Bob Drake

ROBERT DRAKE: LITTLE BLACK TRAIN (1996)
-Charge
-No Title
-Conductor
-Leach field coyote
-Dust owl
-Haunted lands
-Unlit galaxies
-Outside influences
-The Graveyard variations
-The unattended funeral
-Shed, cans
-The glory
-Ends of time
-Same old story
-Little nameless sonata

Bob Drake: tout

5 UU's: POINT OF VIEWS (1996)
Reedition en un seul CD des deux premiers LP + ep "BAR CODE"
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-Carousel of progress

Jon Beck: bass
Greg Conway: guit
David Kerman: drums
Sanjay Kumar: keyb
Curt Wilson: voc

HAIL: KIRK (1998)

5 UU's: CRISIS IN CLAY (1998)
-Comeupance
-Broadside hits and near misses
-The how-to's of self taught
-Bought the farm
-Simply agree
-Goliath and the sights
-December
-Hunter-gatherer
-What price virtue ?
-Darkened doors
-The encounter
-The willful suspension of disbelief
-Cirrus
-Absolutely, absolute
-Ringing in the new ear

Bob Drake: guit, basses, voc, violin, etc.
David Kerman: drums, guit, keyb, etc.
Sanjay Kumar: keyb, etc.
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Tom DiMuzio: electronic and computer generated sounds
Scott Brazieal: vibes

THINKING PLAGUE: IN EXTREMIS (1998)
-Dead silence
-Behold the man
-This weird wind
-Les tudes d'organism
-Maelstrom
-The aesthete
-Kingdome come

Mike Johnson: guit, synth, seq
David Kerman: drums, percu
Mark Harris: saxes, clarinet, flute, bass clarinet
Deborah Perry: voc
Dave Willey: bass, accordian
Shane Hotle: piano, synth, mellotron
Bob Drake: bass, voc, violin

JASON DUMARS: SINGULARITY (1998)
-Prelude
-Turns
-Eagle creak/Transformed
-Hospitality
-Quiet
-Funny farm
-Oom
-Southampton
-Separation
-Herd
-Fright train
-Mystery

Jason Dumars: alto sax
Bob Drake: guit, bass, drums, voc, mix
Ned Rothenberg: alto sax, bass clarinet
Chris Cutler: drums
Tom Dimuzio: live processing
Doug Thierault: guit, noises
Jennifer Dumars: voc

THE END TIMES GROUPIES: WHAT ARE 'S THE REST OF ME? (1999?)

BOB DRAKE: MEDALLION ANIMAL CARPET (1999)
Part1:
-Hideous shrub
- Crude internal organ
- Detrimental robot
- Maybe it's -
- Concrete husky
- How was it
- Where there is nothing
- Mound
- Bedraggled things
- Flashy smog wolf person
- Do you hear, see, ammonia
- Slab
- One night, in an old fasionned -
- Light seen in empty -
- Dehydrated
- I'm afraid there are results

Part2:
- Over in the glory land
- Seven cents
- Title unknown
- Angel band
- Title unknown
- I wish it had been a dream
- Hand me down my walking cane

Part3:
- Dunwich confidential

Bob Drake: guit, drums, voc, violin, synth, ...
Jason Dumars: sax on 5+9
Stevan Tickmayer: keyb on 12
Mark Fuller: dr, percu on 1+6+12
Mark McCoin: dr, percu on 1+6+12
Chris Cutler: dr on 5+6+7+10
Tim Gadd: ac guit, lead voc on 23

V.A. : ENHANCED GRAVITY (1999)
Chris Cutler & Bob Drake: Absolute gravity
Faust: Against absolute gravity
Amy Denio & Jim Bennett: Partial gravity
Diledadafish: Comparative gravity
Noble gas: Horizontal, or good sence
Un drame musical instantané: Wit
Pointless orchestra: Comarative levity, or coxcomb
Laurie Spiegel: partial levity, or pert fool
Steve Horowitz: absolute levity, or stark fool

Il y a également une partie multimédia pour chaque artiste (d'où une partie musical relativement courte)

SCIENCE GROUP: ... A mere coincidence... (1999)
- Mnemonic
- Aleph Zero
- Engineering
- Lost in translation
- Chimera
- Parity
- Love
- Open or closed ?
- Napoleon
- ...in...
- ...Shroedinger's box
- Event horizon
- Lab notes
- Scale invarians
- There must be something

Chris Cutler: text, drums, electronics
Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer: music, piano, keyb, zither, violin, guit, samples
Bob Drake: record, mix, produc, bass, voc, guit, drums
Fred Frith: guit
Claudio Puntin: clarinet
Amy Denio: voc

Facilement un des albums les plus fantastiques de l'année 1999 !
Un projet au départ de Chris Cutler, après Art Bears, Domestic Stories qui confronte ses textes (ici sur le thème des "sciences") aux compositions de Stevan Tickmayer. Pour l'occasion, sa musique contemporaine se fait rock, voire progressive, superbement chantée par Amy Denio et Bob Drake. Ce dernier ajoute sa touche personnelle et radicale dans le mixage et la production de cet album déjà mythique.
Une référence dans le monde des créations rock !

DAVE KERMAN/ 5UU'S: REGARDING PURGATORIES (2000)
-Meteora
-Pinwheel
-Below and beyond
-To fall on deaf ears part1
-Half-akin to gladsome
-Drachma
-First person jocular
-String of hey-days
-Day 29
-Gordion Knot
-Stand on ceremony
-To fall on deaf eras part2

Dave Kerman: guit, keyb, drums, percu, occasional bass & voc, tapes, noises, etc...
Deborah Perry: voc
Keith Macksoud: bass
Mark McCoin: exotic percu
Sanjay Kumar: occasional keyb
Charles Turner: piano solos

Plus intime, plus angoissant...superbes et émouvant.