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Right, here's how it is: Critters Buggin' is hardcore.
When the freakishly boundary-pushing Seattle jazz quartet (veritably legends in the Pacific Northwest) convened last September in drummer Matt Chamberlain's The Kraft studio, it'd been five years since Amoeba, their fourth and final album on Loosegroove, Stone Gossard's Epic imprint. But it wasn't for lack of wanting. They were busy, y'understand, off playing with everybody and their moms.
"It's been madness, I tell you," said saxophonics dervish Skerik, who - along with vibraphonist Mike Dillon - signed on with Les Claypool's Flying Frog Brigade, as well as the supergroup Garage-A-Trois (plus a half-dozen other projects, big and tiny).
Chamberlain and bassist Brad Houser - both founding members of The New Bohemians (the former also doing time in Pearl Jam and G.E. Smith's Saturday Night Live band) - hung in Seattle. Between dates with the likes of David Bowie, Tori Amos, Elton John, Liz Phair, and coun...