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Jeff Platz / Max Goldman / Brendan Carniaux: With Orbit
by Mark Corroto
If we had to categorize the sounds of Jeff Platz, Max Goldman, and Brendan Carniaux, we might call it sneaky music. Not sneaky as in deceitful, more like wily or sly. Partly composed, mostly improvised, With Orbit trades in the art of sleight of hand. For instance the opening track “Lost To History" leads off with a bit of a funk groove via Platz's raucous guitar before Carniaux's saxophone counters with some outward bounding notes and Goldman turns his pulse ...
Continue ReadingDifferential Equations: Jeff Platz / Kit Demos / Fabio Delvo / John McLellan
by Dave Wayne
Those drawn to free improvised music can attest to the appeal of the style: the constant flow of ideas and the crackling energy of instantaneous musical interactions. When an improvising band is “on," you know it. What you're hearing is the sound of others listening intently and responding in the moment. Heavily dependent on group chemistry, the success or failure of a free improvising group hinges on the ability of its members to participate in a sort of give-and-take that ...
Continue ReadingJeff Platz - Kit Demos - Fabio Delvò - John McLellan: Differential Equations
by Vincenzo Roggero
Da una parte l'elettricità--la chitarra di Jeff Platz, il basso di Kit Demos--dall'altra la componente acustica--la batteria di John McLellan, il sax contralto di Fabio Delvò-. Che Differential Equations sia un album dai ruoli definiti e dalle sonorità equamente ripartite come ogni buona dimostrazione matematica? Niente affatto perché le rasoiate, le tangenti alle curve musicali, spesso oblique e sfuggenti, gli accidenti di percorso, le fulminee illuminazioni, arrivano da più punti di origine, da fuochi che cambiano continuamente ...
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