Sci Fidelity Records
2003
Untying The Not
About This Album
After releasing a mammoth 40 live recordings from their 2002 tour, String Cheese Incident is back in the studio with easily the finest moment they have ever committed to tape in this environment. On Untying the Not, SCI erases the perception that the only thing they are capable of as a band is playing long, wonderfully intricate, transcendent jams rooted in songs in a live setting. SCI are also fine songwriters, and virtually everything here attests to the fact that they have attained not only new inner wisdom as a band when it comes to writing tunes, but in recording them as well. The gorgeous, warm, gooey, organic, and spacious sound producer Youth (yes, formerly of Killing Joke and formerly known as Martin Glover) weaves around the band's compositions updates its sounds without artifice or gimmick. Contrast two of the five instrumentals (all sequenced in a row, bridging the album's two themes from search to acceptance), the futuristic, deep-space, jazzy funk of "Mountain Girl," with the Appalachian balladry of "Elijah," where Michael Kang's strings and Kyle Hollingsworth intertwine intimately, becoming a kind of modern day Stephen Foster melody rooted in the grain of the land itself.
Track List (try tracks 1,5 and 11)

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