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Free Nelson Mandoomjazz: The Organ Grinder
by Chris M. Slawecki
Search as far and wide as you like but you won't find any one band that sounds like Edinburgh, Scotland's Free Nelson Mandoomjazz. You CAN find about eight, though: Their sprawling, monstrous “doomjazz" combines harmonic and rhythmic streams from various free jazz and heavy metal schools, including and especially Black Sabbath, Albert Ayler, Electric Wizard, Sonny Rollins and Wayne Shorter. “The initial concept of the band was quite straightforward: doomjazz. 'Let's see if we can combine these two seemingly disparate ...
read moreFree Nelson Mandoomjazz: Awakening of a Capital
by Mario Calvitti
Questo trio di musicisti scozzesi, basato in Edinburgo, è salito recentemente alla ribalta con due EP pubblicati da una etichetta indipendente, con titoli che rimandavano esplicitamente a Ornette Coleman (The Shape of Doomjazz to Come) e Sonny Rollins (Saxophone Giganticus), e una musica che ai riferimenti jazzistici aggiungeva quelli a Black Sabbath e Domenico Scarlatti, mescolando doom metal e free jazz in un amalgama definito appunto doomjazz dagli stessi musicisti per etichettare la loro musica. I due lavori hanno suscitato ...
read moreFree Nelson Mandoomjazz: The Shape of Doomjazz to Come / Saxophone Giganticus
by Chris M. Slawecki
Free Nelson Mandoomjazz is one hellacious trio led by Rebecca Sneddon on alto saxophone with bassist Colin Stewart and a bone-crunching drummer credited only as Archibald, and herewith explodes onto the global music scene with a single-disc that pairs their EPsThe Shape of Doomjazz to Come and Saxophone Giganticus. From their base in Edinburgh (Scotland), Free Nelson Mandoomjazz proves equally versed in the heaviest of heavy metal (including and especially Black Sabbath) and the most free of free ...
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