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…and more bears
RECORDINGS
“designed for repeated listening”

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1. Mexican Sundae (Petersen).................................................2:07
2. Kissamiss (Barnes) ................................................................2:21
3. Broken Melody (Blade) ........................................................2:53
4. Tropico (Pandy-Fields) ..........................................................2:10
5. Afterthoughts (Castion).......................................................3:35
6. Roumanian Rock (Enesco-Marsters) ...................................1:45
7. Soft Shoe Fantasy (Sillari) ...................................................2:32
8. The Whistler's Mambo (Pandy-Jaworski)...........................2:24
9. Theme From Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky-Marsters) ..............2:26
10. Arrivederci (Bonsignore)......................................................1:58
11. This Is Love (Keller) ..............................................................2:49
12. Too Much Mustard (Macklin) ..............................................2:16
Original: SESAC N 2507/2508 P 1961
SOUND IDEAS
BILL SNYDER
AND THE
SONIC SEVEN
Achtern Dahl 4 • D-27729 Vollersode • Germany
P 2009 & C 2009 …AND MORE BEARS LC 12483

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Bill Snyder has a refreshing awareness of all the modern musical
trends...and he uses them to embark on some perceptive trends of his
own. ‘Sound Ideas’ was the result of such stimulating innovations. The
piano phrases flow in the facile and sophisticated Snyder fashion, but
the tempo is upbeat in a dynamic interplay of instrumental combinations.
In this session the Snyder keyboard is in sound surroundings, for The
Sonic Seven is a lively, exuberant combo that generates an aura of
melodic excitement. Here, then, are old favorites bearing an up-to-date
Snyder retouching and a brace of freshly conceived tuneful impressions,
which constitute an album of ‘Sound Ideas’ in listening enjoyment.
Mexican Sundae, a fiery Latin concoction, sends thoughts astir with its
beautifully festive rapport between piano, rhythm and melody guitar.
A cymbal ride then leads off some sounds in the round, with no square
tones allowed, as each of The Sonic Seven displays his artistry in the
fugue-like Kissamiss. Broken Melody is a Snyder showpiece, an ornate
blend of modern and classical piano stylings that portrays heartbreak

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SOUND IDEAS
BILL SNYDER
AND THE
SONIC SEVEN
with a smile, through flowery flourishes and rippling chords. Bill’s keyboard flair
returns the group to the below-the-border beat in Tropico, next, accompanied by
George Barnes’ Spanish guitar and the flute fills of Alberto Socarras.
Afterthoughts, which follows, is a stream-of-consciousness musical meditation, in
a supper club vein, that explores the possibilities of what might-have-been. For a
closer, Bill’s Sonic Seven turns a familiar concert piece into a rousing futuristic romp
called Roumanian Rock.
The flip side opens on stage, in a vaudeville theater a few decades back, as Bill
Snyder’s pit piano leads his nimble crew through an interpretation of a hoofer’s
dream… Soft Shoe Fantasy. Then, The Whistler’s Mambo comes on fast with some
vibrant piano-flute exchanges in a rhythm-inspiring, earcatchig melody. A riding
guitar rhythm establishes the tempo, next, as Bill’s piano essays the Theme From
Swan Lake, a charmingly poetic ballet excerpt that takes on a new intensity in this
latter-day environment. Goodbye, but not forgotten, is the prevailing feeling that’s
implied in the insistent, sensuous mood that follows, as piano and guitar fashion
the enchanting tango strains of Arrivederci. Bill Snyder’s spirited keyboard treatment
and the enthusiastic flute-guitar accompaniment, next, prove that the group lives
up to their song titles, especially in the ardent selection that proclaims... This Is
Love. ‘Sound Ideas’ then concludes with a “soaring sixties” rendition of the “roaring
twenties” favorite ... Too Much Mustard.
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…and more bears
RECORDINGS
“designed for repeated listening”
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