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New Zion Trio: Fight Against Babylon

Read "Fight Against Babylon" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Anche i musicisti più eclettici e instabili hanno una loro intima poetica. Ecco scoperta quella di Jamie Saft, tastierista, manipolatore sonoro, produttore. Onnivoro in quanto a frequentazioni e come performer--dalla fucina Tzadik all'heavy metal, dal jazz progressivo alla musica contemporanea di derivazione europea--Saft sembra confessarsi intimamente con questo New Zion Trio, completato da Larry Grenadier al basso e Craig Santiago alla batteria. La musica essenziale, distillata, che sgorga dai solchi di Fight Against Babylon non è certo una divagazione tra ...

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Album Review

New Zion Trio: Fight Against Babylon

Read "Fight Against Babylon" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


The jazz piano trio and Jamaican dub music--the reggae sub-genre that focuses on slowing down the original reggae mix and emphasizing the bass and drums tracks with studio wizardry--seem to be two distant musical universes. Yet producer and multi-instrumentalist Jamie Saft's New Zion Trio debut recording succeeds in blowing fresh winds in the traditional piano trio with dub aesthetics, citing King Tubby, Bob Marley, Bill Evans, Pharoah Sanders and Alice Coltrane as influences. All the compositions, except ...


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