Modern Madness is an all instrumental progressive rock album from Paradox, a power trio residing in the New York City / Long Island area, and released on the Kasenetz & Katz owned Magna Glide Records - a label which existed primarily as a business to solely lose money for tax purposes. Ah, the late 70s...
While listening to the album my mind immediately wandered to that of Automatic Fine Tuning, the excellent English instrumental group that continues to be much unheralded. AFT had a twin guitar setup recalling Wishbone Ash, and I would say that Paradox took a more straightforward hard rock path, perhaps recalling Rush around that same time. From a composition standpoint, and perhaps overall musical approach, I was also reminded of the obscure Chicago band Seiche, who recorded a similarly complex power trio album in 1979 (though Seiche had vocals, giving the band a little downtime). Overall an excellent album worthy of pursuit.
Original drummer Joe Wood wrote in and told us: "Glad you like Paradox. I was in that band in the 80's. We recorded more music in the 80's on 2 inch reels. Three new songs will soon be posted on IACMusic.com. I am the new drummer and I'm working on finishing all the songs we started back then. It includes a new version of Modern Maddess. The new band had me Joe Wood on drums, Rich Hoffman the original guitarist Pete Martinez the original bassist. Also Rob Jack keys and Rob Adamo vocals. My new band Coney Island Steeplechase is on IacMusic.com Me and Rich Hoffman still keep in touch and work together. We are talking about a reunion. Pete is one of the best musicians and writers I ever worked with."
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