Brendan Carniaux

Jeff Platz / Max Goldman / Brendan Carniaux: With Orbit

by Mark Corroto
August 11, 2021

If we had to categorize the sounds of Jeff Platz, Max Goldman, and Brendan Carniaux, we might call it sneaky music. Not sneaky as in deceitful, more like wily or sly. Partly composed, mostly improvised, With Orbit trades in the art of sleight of hand. For instance the opening track “Lost To History" leads off with a bit of a funk groove via Platz's raucous guitar before Carniaux's saxophone counters with some outward bounding notes and Goldman turns his pulse ...