Djam Karet is an instrumental progressive rock band based in Topanga, California. The band was founded in 1984 by guitarists Gayle Ellett and Mike Henderson, bassist Henry J. Osborne, and drummer Chuck Oken, Jr.. The band's name is an Indonesian word (pronounced by English speakers as 'jam care-RAY) that translates loosely as "elastic time".
Djam Karet is usually referred to, for lack of any better descriptive adjective, as "progressive." Don't let this throw you off. This Topanga-based group of musicians follow their own particular muse, and it takes them in some really odd places.
A case in point is the 1991 album Suspension and Displacement. It has everything from an anatomy lecture surrounded by ominous phasing rhythms ("Consider Figure #3") to dawn-of-man shuffling rites with exotic percussion ("A City With Two Tales"). The only adjective you can eliminate with certainty is "predictable."
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