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Elliott Sharp / Melvin Gibbs / Lucas Niggli: Crossing The Waters
By Track review of "Flow Fever"This trio takes care of business without dickering around, teeming with the musicians' aggressive interactions and swirling mobility. Sharp's distortion-laced sound platforms his complex chop-chords, speedy single note licks and sizzling harmonics. With Gibbs' deep bass and Niggli's rolling and tumbling polyrhythmic exercises, they discombobulate most semblances of conventional jazz-rock stylizations and slam the engine into overdrive amid a few restrained undertakings.
"Flow Fever" begins as a fragmented and introspective workout assembled on loosely aligned, avant sub-themes. Moving forward, the band jazzes it up via a free-form blowout, where Sharp's maniacal extrapolations profess angst and yearning atop Niggli's punishing rolls, while Gibbs lays out a pliant bottom. But they diminish the intensity framed by Sharp's tinkling notes and programmatic rhythmical maneuvers due to his closed-handed chord progressions. Here, the trio fulfils its mission by exploring an extensive spectrum of possibilities and counter- arguments, functioning as a common denominator throughout this colossally mesmeric program.
Personnel
Elliott Sharp
guitar, electricElliott Sharp: guitars; Melvin Gibbs: bass; Lucas Niggli: drums.
Album information
Title: Crossing The Waters | Year Released: 2013 | Record Label: Intakt Records
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Instrument: Guitar, electric
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