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Finneus Gauge: More Once More  (CD, 72:07); TR79601, 1997
Train Records
Inverse Entertainment
P.O. Box 1240
Langhorne, PA 19047
E-mail: finneus-gauge@juno.com
Cyberhome: http://www.ghostland.com/finneus.html/

	Finneus Gauge is quirky, shifty, tricky, elusive, fun -- like running through a narrow 
hallway full of hundreds of crickets, each leaping for attention and chirping in some crazed 
unison. You are deluged with a myriad of notes, chords, rhythms, vocals and brief pauses just 
before being swept away into another delightful maelstrom of song. And songs are what this 
group is about -- not endless jams nor lengthy progrock ascensions into the overdone "crescendo 
cul-de-sac". Ten well-crafted ballads and two instrumentals are served. All are tinged with the 
delicate intensity of angered hornets and counterpoint enough to make Schoenberg shuffle and 
Bartok boogie.
	If you need a place to hang your ear and say, "Ah, yes they sound like . . .", well I offer 
these parallelisms and likely influences. Splice a tape of Hatfield and the North's Rotters Club 
and Bruford's Feels Good To Me together. Most importantly insert a good deal of female vocals 
in the cavalier-cool spirit of Annette Peacock. Now overlay it compositionally with the obvious 
ghost in the machine of Echolyn's As the World.
	You must approach this music with a healthy appetite for complexity and the 
unpredictable. If you're into cutting edge, ultra-hip grooves, tempo twirls, and hyper-kinetic 
gymnastics in song structuring then Finneus Gauge more than satisfies. Not a half second is 
wasted in their pieces. There are no commercial carbon imperfections in the glistening diamonds 
hidden in every progressive facet of this CD. This is truly a "jazzrock-fusion-with-multi-part-
vocals" roller coaster rush!
	Finneus Gauge is: Chris Buzby on keys and backing vocals, John Buzby on drums and 
backing vocals, Chris Eike on basses, Laura Martin on lead and backing vocals and Scott McGill 
on guitars. Yeah, that is Chris Buzby of Echolyn fame and Scott McGill of the amazing Hand 
Farm release. Keyboard magazine recognized More Once More as one of the top five alums 
from 1997. So why haven't you bought this yet? Most highly recommended and thoroughly 
enjoyed -- twas a privilege to have reviewed this one.		-- John W. Patterson
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