Peggi Fournier - Soprano Sax; Bob Martin - Guitars/Pedals; Pete Labonne - Piano, Synth, Guitar; Ken Frank - Upright and Electric bass; Paul Dodd - Drums; Jack Schaefer - Bass Clarinet on Big Bass BounceMargaret Explosion is a live band. The group improvises and rarely returns to a song. Most of their cd projects were recorded live at gigs or live in the studio with no overdubbing. Civilization, on the other hand, was built from the ground up. In true Margaret Explosion fashion the basic tracks were improvised, but this time in small group settings. The material was edited and sometimes looped and additional tracks were improvised on top of those basic tracks. The band recorded and mixed with the great Arpad Sekeres at the controls."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 from, 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."— Frank DeBlase, City Newspaper, Rochester, NYMargaret Explosion a Cool Blue Flame of JazzWhile Camera Obscura would be a fine band to write a soundtrack for David Lynch (see After Dark column on facing page), Margaret Explosion is what the dwarves dance to. Rochester's leader in psychedelic jazz celebrates the release of its new live CD, Live Dive, 5 p.m. Wednesday at Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way.The music burns with a cool blue flame. It is cocktails in space. Saxophonist Peggi Fournier, drummer Paul Dodd, bassist Ken Frank and guitarist Bob Martin fill out this 11-track collection of"spontaneously composed," sinuous rhythm with guest appearances by pianists Pete LaBonne and Charles Jaffe and guitarists Jack Schaefer and Phil Marshall.Margaret Explosion, which never rehearses, records virtually everything it plays. Hence, Live Dive offers tracks from four years of The Little Café, Rochester Institute of Technology, Flat Iron Café, Bug Jar and the Bop Shop. And it is very live: beneath the opening track,"Lakeshore Boulevard," the undercurrent of the espresso machine and patrons chatting and probing their quiches at The Little Café is an extra sound."Five Star Surf" feels like Ry Cooder sitting in with the Buena Vista Social Club. Dodd's mannered, stylish drumming brings to mind one of those drinking bird toys. Left in the archives was the night Margaret Explosion was playing at a local club and someone was shot on the street outside."You can hear everyone clearing the room and pressing their noses against the windows," Dodd says.Margaret Explosion is an accident with a starting time, what Dodd calls"creating a dialogue through improvisation." Songs are creations of the moment, unwritten, rarely to be heard again. Although, being genial folks, Margaret Explosion will respond to requests as best as they can remember the piece."In the beginning, we would resort to playing some songs off our CDs," Dodd says."But the more we've played, the more we've been able to develop this thing over the last 10 years. We try to sound like we're doing songs. Just kind of jump in, listen to each other, make it sound like a song, but without resorting to refrains or the traditional verse-chorus-verse. When it starts sounding like jamming, we hate that."If there is a thread on which to hang the song, it's Fournier's melodic sax.Margaret Explosion resumes three months of Wednesday-night residencies at The Little Café in December.— Jeff Spevak, Democrat & Chronicle, Rochester, NY