Robert Schröck

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Chuffdrone: Actio / re:actio

by Friedrich Kunzmann
February 24, 2020

This young Austrian collective's sophomore effort is quite an ambitious undertaking. Divided over a CD and a vinyl LP, Chuffdrone offer up a passionate set of urgent and extensive tunes which are constructed around the reciprocity of improvisation and composition. Each member of the quintet has a say and puts their individual spin on a variety of patterns of sonic impulses, hence the title actio / re:actio . In a tense display of acoustic fusion jazz, memorable melodies are as ...