Brainville - Minor Imperfections

Like the expression "from hell", the amusing term "brainville" must have originated with someone's greatgrandfather in upstate Michigan. Most of the references in modern music can be assumed to be Sun Ra tributes, however, since his tune of the same name is one of his most famous compositions, even showing up in the early nonlegal version of The Real Book. At least two bands have made recordings under the name Brainville, of which the Swedish one responsible for Braxtone's Minor Imperfections is the more obscure. Interestingly enough, one of the reactor's notes, a typically wry blend of musician references and unjustified innuendo, reads as follows: "Bass line enters, loud electric bass, it sounds like Kramer waiting on his hash connection." Kramer, along with some exmembers of the bands Gong and Soft Machine, were members of the other Brainville.

"Small crash with two cars, everything settled peacefully," the reactor's notes to the first audit of Minor Imperfections begins. This first set of notes is about a third the length of the second; in checking the reactor's notations for accuracy it was concluded that this entire performance doesn't seem to make much of an impression the first time out. Perhaps twothirds of the way through there is an effect like gamelan music of Indonesia, except with the gong and keyboard percussion orchestra having gone berserk. This and the final track's unavoidable likeness to Tibetan and other ethnic music styles through Jan Rishedan's use of instruments such as zurna and snake charmer are timeconsuming if not entirely unpleasant examples of this Brainville's ability to approximate the easiest to imitate world music styles.