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Eyal Maoz & Eugene Chadbourne: The Coincidence Masters
by Glenn Astarita
Imagine a musical universe where the avant-garde meets the absurd, where experimental jazz collides with the wild and wacky. Enter Eyal Maoz and Eugene Chadbourne, two sonic explorers who have teamed up to create a truly out-of-this-world album. It is like watching a cosmic collision between a supernova and a black hole, except instead of gravitational waves, you are treated to a cacophony of sounds that may leave you scratching your head in bewildered delight. Maoz, ...
Continue ReadingBenjamin Boone: Caught in the Rhythm
by Paul Rauch
The connection between poetry and jazz music is a delicate one. It has been documented so infrequently, in performance and recordings, that one still conjures the flicker of an image of Jack Kerouac reading in some dark Greenwich Village cafe with Steve Allen or Zoot Sims, surrounded by beret-wearing, cappuccino-sipping beatniks. The work of Fresno-based saxophonist Benjamin Boone has assisted in widening that view through four albums recorded for the Origin Records label, including the fourth, Caught in the Rhythm ...
Continue ReadingMagnet Animals: Fake Dudes
by Glenn Astarita
Its press release refers to this band as a “combustible beat-skronk" unit for its follow-up to the 2016 Butterfly Killer album, where guitarist Todd Clouser iterates his poetry under the semblance of a rebel using a small megaphone. It seems as if he could be on a corner somewhere in Greenwich Village, NYC., to forewarn the willing populace of dour sociopolitical issues, along with oddball humor and sober expressionism. Once again, Clouser and guitarist Eyal Maoz (who played with Lou ...
Continue ReadingEyal Maoz - Asaf Sirkis: The Lie Detectors Part III - Secret Unit
by Glenn Astarita
New York-based guitarist Eyal Maoz (John Zorn, Lou Reed) and London-based drummer Asaf Sirkis (Markus Reuter, Mark Wingfield) are childhood friends, hailing from Rehovot, Israel. Although each musician is quite busy via numerous projects on a global scale, they've managed to produce three duo albums. On Part III, the musicians seemingly operate with the force of a supercharged V8 engine. Maoz has aligned with composer, producer and saxophonist John Zorn's radical Jewish culture underpinnings, namely on Tzadik Records ...
Continue ReadingEyal Maoz - Asaf Sirkis: Elementary Dialogues
by AAJ Italy Staff
Possiede l'energia del buon vecchio rock, quello verace e ruspante, dove l'esibizione è momento anche di ricerca, di sperimentazione di nuove sonorità e di nuove strategie esecutive. E vi è una spiccata propensione all'improvvisazione, alle continue invenzioni, all'ascolto reciproco per rilanciare sollecitazioni e impulsi ricevuti e creare prospettive diverse all'esecuzione. Questa miscela diventa esplosiva e incendia Elementary Dialogues, album registrato negli Eastcote Studios di Londra nel gennaio 2006 e opportunamente stampato ora dalla Ayler Records. Cresciuti nella stessa città in ...
Continue ReadingEyal Maoz & Edom: Hope and Destruction
by AAJ Italy Staff
Eyal Maoz appartiene alla rigogliosa fioritura di musicisti (e non solo) prodotta negli ultimi dieci anni dal fertile “melting pot" israeliano. Come molti di loro ha studiato negli Stati Uniti, dove attualmente vive parte dell'anno. Maoz si è inizialmente affermato alla guida del Lemon Juice Quartet (con il trombettista Avishai Cohen, il bassista Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz e il batterista Kevin Zubek, tutti studenti israeliani della Berklee School of Music), con cui si è esibito anche in Israele e negli Stati ...
Continue ReadingEyal Maoz's Edom: Hope and Destruction
by Eyal Hareuveni
The second release of New York-based Israeli guitarist Eyal Maoz alt-klezmer quartet Edom is a schizophrenic one. On one hand, Maoz faithfully follows Tzadik founder John Zorn's hybridized post-modern pastiche of klezmer and Jewish musical traditions, and musical references that are typical of the label's Radical Jewish Culture series. This is most audible in the manner that Maoz adopts the angst and skronk style of Zorn's leading guitarist in his Jewish-related projects, Marc Ribot. On the other hand, this release ...
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