Jazz Articles about Emil de Waal
Emil de Waal: Live +
by Budd Kopman
Multi-instrumentalist Emil de Waal's Live + represents both the mirror image and logical continuation of his previous release, Emil de Waal + (RMK Records, 2005). The earlier record used the computer as a member of the band in a studio setting. This offering takes the concept further by recording his jazz electronic live shows in Denmark, removing audience response, and then post-processing it in New York and Copenhagen studios. In this respect, de Waal is following the ...
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by Budd Kopman
Emil de Waal + is another release from the “what is jazz?/is it jazz? category that has come my way recently, along with Mandarin Movie, Patina, and Dada Ear Ink. The common characteristics connecting them are the appearance of nonmusical sounds (electronica, including processed voice) and use of standard musical instruments in nonstandard ways. This release also adds rhythms that feel more like techno dance than anything else. De Waal wanted to inhabit that space where jazz ...
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