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Album Review

Get The Blessing: Pallett

Read "Pallett" reviewed by Neil Duggan


Many artists describe their music as aural paintings. Bristol band Get The Blessing take that idea to the next level with their seventh studio album, Pallett. The album cover features a paint by numbers drawing of a wooden pallet to colour in (the limited-edition vinyl comes complete with wax crayons) and all the tracks are named after colours from an imaginary colour chart. Jazz should be fun after all. Get The Blessing are not easy to categorise, ...

Album Review

Get The Blessing: OCDC

Read "OCDC" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


OCDC è il classico album che farà irritare i puristi. E i Get the Blessing, quartetto di Bristol qui alla loro terza prova discografica, si capisce subito che si divertono un mondo a sovvertire le regole del mainstream con un jazz iperitmico, venato di rock e trascinato dalle tipiche e melodiche evoluzioni dei fiati - tromba e sassofoni - che hanno da sempre contraddistinto il British Jazz d'antan. Prendiamo, ad esempio, la softmachiniana “Low Earth Orbit" che sembra uscita da ...


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