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Ten years ago the instrumental, improvisational band, Margaret Explosion, began playing a weekly happy hour gig at the Bug Jar in Rochester, NY. That gig lasted for three years. They can now be found most weeks at the Little Theatre Cafe where they have held a residence for four years. In addition, the band has played countless art openings, private parties and club dates. The Margaret Explosion line up regularily includes Peggi Fournier on sax, Bob Martin on guitar, Ken Frank on bass and Paul Dodd on drums. Jack Schaefer and Pete LaBonne sit in often. Peggi Fournier, Bob Martin and Paul Dodd were all members of Personal Effects in the early eighties. Ken Frank played with Colorblind James Experience for many years.

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DEMOCRAT & CHRONICLE'S CRITIC'S PLAYLIST — Jack Garner
MARGARET EXPLOSION: SKYHIGH. This is one of the most original and unusual bands in Rochester; a five-piece ensemble exploring all sorts of musical dimensions linked to free jazz, Third World melodies, exotic instrumentation and a spacey, enveloping sort of music that often echoes the works of Scandinavian saxophonist Jan Garbarek and other Europeans who record for the ECM label. The 13 tracks on Skyhigh vary from the funk of "Shep's Paradise" (a tribute to the legendary local jazz club), to the geographic tributes to "Ionia" and "Bilbao." Despite the offbeat material, the Explosion plays with a single-minded purpose and organic oneness that's most impressive.

City Newspaper "Spontaneous Composition" - Frank DeBlase - Rochester City Newspaper
The Margaret Explosion's music is infinite, eternally elegant, and mystical. It is a musical journey with no end — or beginning, for that matter. The Margaret Explosion is slow-motion psychedelia that conjures images and colors. It will awaken things in your head. You will see.
The lyric-free lilt the music offers is a more complex and interesting narrative than found in most songs with words; like thoughts in larval form, before they get fleshed out with consonants and vowels. And in this case the narrative belongs to the listener — as well the band — for there is no map, no compass, no divining rod.

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Margaret Explosion "Skyhigh" on Earring Records, 2006
"Live At The Little", Compilation featuring Margaret Explosion on Earring Records, 2004
Margaret Explosion "1969" on Earring Records, 2004
Margaret Explosion "Happy Hour" on Earring Records, 2003
Invisible Idiot "Outta Sight. Outta Mind" on Earring Records, 2000
(Invisible Idiot is the original Margaret Explosion line up performing under a different name)

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