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Daniel - Galichet - Metzger: Killing Spree
ByOn compositions such as "This Song Begins Like A Hit" and "Our Endless Boring Loop," the trio elicits varying degrees of psychodrama via supersonic trajectories into the jazz improv space amid power-drummer Grégoire Galichet's blasting polyrhythms and Sylvain Daniel's guerilla bass lines. At times, the artists' maniacal theme-building sorties feature sinister background treatments and Metzger's high-spirited phrasings. As the band's anarchic mode of attack tenders an enthralling plot akin to a cinematic action-thriller. And they morph foot-stomping rock movements into various pieces while offsetting any semblances of the straight and narrow, with spiraling angst and head-spinning detours.
The musicians tone it down on the two-minute ""Monde Froid," where noise-shaping mechanisms transfer into a cavernous void. Otherwise, fans of the experimental rock peripheries of saxophonist, composer, producer John Zorn's Tzadik label may appreciate Killing Spree's avant jazz and rock makeup. Indeed, this is not a risk-adverse unit. Besides all the fireworks and the respective performers' enviable technical attributes, the group carves out a well-defined and largely disciplined path of destruction on Killing Spree.
Track Listing
Stinky Flower; This Song Begins Like A Hit; Parler à un homme qui marche; The Brain Sucking Exercise; Our Endless Boring Loop; ibliss; Our Endless Boring Loop; Monde froid; Dismembered Carmen vs Emma Peel.
Personnel
Matthieu Metzger: saxophones, some pitch fx, white devil talkbox; Sylvain Daniel: tokai electric bass, fine tuned fx; Grégoire Galichet: drums.
Album information
Title: Killing Spree | Year Released: 2015 | Record Label: Ayler Records
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