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Arts & Sciences: New You

AAJ Italy Staff By AAJ Italy Staff

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Il leader del quartetto Arts & Sciences (attivo a Oackland, California) è il tastierista Michael Coleman, non a caso autore di tutto il materiale tematico contenuto in questo interessante CD, la cui peculiarità principale sembra risiedere in un diffuso eclettismo, che nello specifico non è però, fortunatamente, in alcun modo sinonimo di genericità (come spesso accade).

Vi convivono infatti lacerti elettronici e pillole post-cameristiche, un'adesione a un lessico jazzistico tendenzialmente avanzato, ora ruvido e ora più tendente all'informale, e altro ancora, fino all'epifania conclusiva, di una festosità vagamente nevrotico-demenziale.

In tutto questo non indifferente condensato di umori e input vari, i due momenti più significativi (ed emblematici) sembrano coincidere con l'ampio "Baby Boner," svolto nel segno di una bella plasticità globale, e "Shunting," fra tutti probabilmente l'episodio più rugoso e viscerale.

Un gruppo da monitorare con una certa attenzione.


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Track Listing

01. People Really Like Me; 02. Poodle; 03. Baby Boner; 04. Step Child; 05. Those Lepers; 06. Massed Opportunity; 07. Scram; 08. Shunting; 09. Scientology; 10. Jazz / Shadow.

Personnel

Jacob Zimmerman
saxophone, alto

Jacob Zimmerman (sax alto, flauto, percussioni); Matt Nelson (sax tenore, effetti, percussioni); Michael Coleman (tastiere); Jordan Glenn (batteria, percussioni); Theo Padouvas (tromba), Rob Ewing (trombone), Aram Shelton (clarinetto basso) e Andrew Conklin (chitarra) aggiunti in 09.

Album information

Title: New You | Year Released: 2012


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