Welcome to Contrapuntal Compsosition!!! Thank you for your visit...

Welcome. Greetings. Blah blah blah. Well here it is folks Contrapuntal Composition two words that mean one thing...Music. And that's what this is all about all types’ punk, jazz, pop, metal, sludge, doom, hip-hop, and all in between. I have spent my life, and an assload of money, in the pursuit of music that makes me smile and at various times have shared it with others through mix tapes and at one point in my life I even made newsletters with my own time and money. So why a blog? Well its alot easier to share what I’ve bought and found and love with others. Hopefully you will find the music placed here as interesting and fun as I do and support the artists by buying other albums and merch or going to shows.

We're gonna start with two terrific punk albums from bands in my favorite place, the Bay Area!!! First we have the Krupted Peasant Farmers from San Jose California. These guys hung out in the heart of South San Jose right off Henderson Dr., home of a really great half pipe I skated many times, and were one of the first bands from our area that had their shit together and wrote and made albums of great punk with humorous political messages ranging from legalization of weed to teen promiscuity. Here is a great starter for anyone of how awesome KPF is, I believe the album was called Everything Seems Okay, I no longer have the case and the writing wore off the tape a long time ago. The sound quality is a little sub par but hey it was home recorded on a either a four or eight track recorder so bare with me and enjoy. But make no mistake these guys have done alot from European tours to being on many worldwide compilations including a Sesame Street cover comp feat. Barenaked Ladies!!! But do not expect some rinky dinky garage band of pubescent whiny kid suff. Also you may wanna check out another great SJ band PTL (Preachers That Lie) as they did many shows with KPF and shared similar styles. Enjoy.

KPF:

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Next up is Fuel. No not the lame 90's rock band that sang about something in the dudes hands!!! But a great band from San Francisco that many people dubbed "Fuelgazi". This is a little misleading if you ask me they always gave me more of a Samiam-Hot Water Music sound. Very intelligent personal politic lyrics mixed with an aggressive mix of dual vocalists, improvised guitar playing and an extremely tight and complex rhythm section. Check the double bass on "Habit". This album collects their main album "Monuments of Excess" from 1990 as well as several cuts from EP's and Splits done w other bands. The band split up and not much has really been heard from the members since but if you would like to see what a few members are up to check out singer/guitar player Jim Allison's blog at http://thebandformerlyknownasfuel.com/ or Drummer Jeff Stofan at http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=47709854 and say hello. Enjoy.

Fuel: Monuments of Excess 1990

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