Jazz Articles about Martin Koller

Martin Koller's Third Movement: Right Now

by Scott Andrews
October 1, 2000

Austrian guitarist/composer/producer Martin Koller combines techno/electronica and fusion with his band Martin Koller's Third Movement on their third release Right Now.

Unlike some electronic prog/fusion that hardly retains any semblance of jazz or fusion, Koller's work remains firmly rooted in a jazz/fusion feel below the noisy sonic surface. Right Now sounds like a cross between the hip-hop/ avant/ fusion of Vernon Reid's Mistaken Identity and the aggro-metal/ noise/ fusion of Meshuggah guitarist Frederik Thordendal's Special Defects. Some tracks recall the ...