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Cul de Sac are a rock music
Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
 group formed in 1990 in Boston, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
 and led by guitar
Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
ist Glenn Jones. Their music is primarily instrumental
Instrumental rock

Instrumental rock is a type of rock music which emphasizes musical instruments, and which features no or very little singing.Examples of instrumental rock can be found in practically every subgenre of rock, often from musicians who specialize in the style, like Chuck Berry, Dick Dale, The Ventures, The Shadows, Jeff Beck, Paul Gilbert, Jean...
. Jones and keyboardist Robin Amos have been the only constant members.

They have been classified by some as post rock, but Jones has expressed some discomfort with the term. He states that Cul de Sac is the most "musically satisfying" group he's been involved with; a group that is the "closest to being the band I'd dreamed of forming.






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Cul de Sac are a rock music
Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
 group formed in 1990 in Boston, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
 and led by guitar
Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
ist Glenn Jones. Their music is primarily instrumental
Instrumental rock

Instrumental rock is a type of rock music which emphasizes musical instruments, and which features no or very little singing.Examples of instrumental rock can be found in practically every subgenre of rock, often from musicians who specialize in the style, like Chuck Berry, Dick Dale, The Ventures, The Shadows, Jeff Beck, Paul Gilbert, Jean...
. Jones and keyboardist Robin Amos have been the only constant members.

They have been classified by some as post rock, but Jones has expressed some discomfort with the term. He states that Cul de Sac is the most "musically satisfying" group he's been involved with; a group that is the "closest to being the band I'd dreamed of forming. It allows me to combine my love of open-tuned guitar, played fingerstyle
Fingerstyle guitar

Fingerstyle guitar is the technique of playing the guitar by plucking the strings directly with the fingertips, fingernails, or picks attached to fingers, as opposed to flatpicking or strumming all the strings of the instrument in chords....
, with my love for electronics and noise
Noise music

Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, Consonance and dissonance#Dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization....
, all placed within a rhythmic rock framework." Jones occasionally plays "The Contraption," a prepared lap steel guitar
Prepared guitar

File:myprepguitar.jpgFile:Leescrewdrivercropped.jpgA prepared guitar is a guitar which has had its timbre altered by placing various objects on or between the instrument's strings, including other extended techniques....
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Cul de Sac have collaborated with guitarist John Fahey
John Fahey (musician)

John Fahey was an United States fingerstyle guitarist and composer who pioneered the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. His style has been greatly influential and has been described as American Primitivism, a term borrowed from painting and referring mainly to the self-taught nature of his art....
 and with Can
Can (band)

Can were an experimental rock band formed in West Germany in 1968. One of the most important krautrock groups, Can incorporated strong minimalism and world music influences....
 singer Damo Suzuki
Damo Suzuki

, universally known as Damo Suzuki , is a singer best known for his membership in the Germany krautrock group Can ....
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Glenn Jones has also recorded two solo albums, This Is the Wind That Blows It Out (2004) and Against Which the Sea Continually Beats (2007).

Discography

  • ECIM (1991)
  • I Don't Want to Go to Bed (1995)
  • China Gate (1996)
  • The Epiphany of Glenn Jones (1997) - with John Fahey
  • Crashes to Light, Minutes to its Fall (1999)
  • Immortality Lessons (2002) - live
  • Death of the Sun (2003)
  • The Strangler's Wife (2003)
  • Abhayamudra (2004) - live


External links

  • * at Epitonic.com
  • by Piero Scaruffi
    Piero Scaruffi

    Piero Scaruffi is an Italian-American cultural historian. He has also written scientific and philosophical essays about cognitive science and published several books of both non-fiction and original poetry, both in Italy and the USA....