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Sick Boss: Businessless
by Chris May
This bracing sophomore album from Vancouver's improvising sextet Sick Boss resonates with the beyond-genre territory of the late Jaimie Branch's Fly Or Die quartet. At a surface level there is the shared use of trumpet and cello, but deeper than that, Businessless embraces the riot grrrl abandon so beloved of Branch. Echoes of Fly Or Die often crop up: the brief melodic motif of opener “Useless Genius 1" is something Branch might have written, as are episodes on other tracks, ...
Continue ReadingThe October Trio + Brad Turner: Looks Like It’s Going to Snow
by AAJ Italy Staff
«Moods and Colours of a Vancouver Autumn». Sì, potrebbe essere questa frase, scritta tra le note di copertina da Greg Buium, a fotografare l'attitudine dell'October Trio. Potrebbe, appunto. Perché se da una parte il suono di Looks Like It's Going to Snow rispecchia i colori tenui di uno scenario nordico, limpido e malinconico, dall'altra mette in mostra una nutrita varietà di situazioni che fanno venir in mente tonalità più accese, vive. A cominciare dai brevi segmenti free-form in scaletta, al ...
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