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Seabrook Power Plant: Seabrook Power Plant II

Read "Seabrook Power Plant II" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Il banjo elettrificato della centrale nucleare di Seabrook nel New Hampshire (Stati Uniti) ha colpito ancora. Il secondo capitolo dei Seabrook Power Plant, power trio di Brooklyn capitanato da Brandon Seabrook, virtuoso del banjo a corde e di quello tenore a 4 corde, è infatti un altro pugno allo stomaco (il primo omonimo e altrettanto esplosivo album risale al 2009). Una bomba sonora che non fa prigionieri e che spiazza e conquista allo stesso tempo. Al primo ascolto un primo ...

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Album Review

Seabrook Power Plant: Seabrook Power Plant II

Read "Seabrook Power Plant II" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins

Guitarist Brandon Seabrook is one of the most imaginative six-string virtuosos currently operating in the fertile Brooklyn scene. His enviable talents have been featured in an eclectic variety of projects since the mid-1990s, including Beat Circus, Naftule's Dream and the Peter Evans Quartet, with an extremely percussive technique on tenor banjo adding further mystique to his idiosyncratic artistry. The shrewdly named Seabrook Power Plant is his flagship power trio, featuring his brother Jared on drums and regular Evans' collaborator Tom ...

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Album Review

Seabrook Power Plant: Seabrook Power Plant

Read "Seabrook Power Plant" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

La batteria picchia come un fabbro ma ha la precisione di un orafo, il contrabbasso si dimena come un ossesso e il banjo (avete letto bene, un banjo!) non ha nulla da invidiare alla chitarra del metallaro più incallito. Incubo notturno dopo una serata di bagordi? Niente affatto, più semplicemente, “Peter Dennis Blanford Townshend," il terrificante brano iniziale del debutto come leader del banjoista e chitarrista Brandon Seabrook. La successiva “Ho Chi Minh Trail" è una sorta di world music ...

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