Jazz Articles about Mysteries Of The Revolution

Mysteries Of The Revolution: Longing For The Dawn

by Chris May
July 21, 2022

London-based jazz-rock band Mysteries of the Revolution (MOTR) is the sonic equivalent of the James Webb Space Telescope. There might be only two core musicians--keyboardist / programmer Daniel Biro and drummer / flautist BB Davis—but the sound pictures they create are at times as epic as the Webb images of distant galaxies. MOTR debuted in 2007 with the bacchanalian Mysteries Of The Revolution (Blue Serene Focus), whose chorale-led opening track touched on the trippy gigantism of twentieth-century classical ...

Mysteries Of The Revolution: Mysteries Of The Revolution

by Chris May
February 29, 2008

Composer/multi-instrumentalist BB Davis' London-based Red Orchidstra has been described as sounding like “Oscar Wilde on acid." Mysteries Of The Revolution, the keyboards-led power trio made up of the rhythmic core of the band, might similarly be described as “Arthur Rimbaud on a headful of the finest, hand pressed, Nepalese ganja." Not literally, for words play only cameo roles here, but in the passionate intensity of the music and its determination, in Rimbaud's words, to “disorder the senses."

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