Hardbite II

Artist

Endel Rivers

Year released

2005

Summary

The long awaited Hardbite II, from Australian-based guitarist Endel Rivers is another all-instrumental, live-in-the-studio collection of progressive fusion/rock. Rivers, born in Estonia under Soviet rule, set himself the challenge to create and bring forth a new color into the world's progressive and jazz-rock scene. Like "Hardbite", the CD features Glenn Roche on drums and Evan Harris on bass, the group gelling as a unit like never before. As reviewer John Patterson sums up, "Rivers' playing integrates some speedy runs, gutsy, well-placed phrasings, interesting harmonization and accessible themes that provide a gravity that the music revolves - musical ideas executed with a driving vision.

Genre

Track listing: 7 tracks
Track Song Time
1 Freestyle 10:21
2 Dave's Back 7:00
3 Brainmaster 7:50
4 Sentiment 6:01
5 Shmack 4:15
6 Brazyl 4:51
7 Spanish Romance 4:49
Endel Rivers "Hardbite II"