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Tatvamasi: Parts Of The Entirety
By Track review of "Rhubanabarb"Electric guitarist Grzegorz Lesiak employs distortion techniques and uses a wah-wah pedal on many of these tracks and aligns with Piqtek for a take no prisoners approach. On "Rhubanabarb," the band dishes out a punishing attack via alternating flows and knotty time signatures. They build up steam via intersecting theme-building maneuvers, as Lesiak's slinky wah-wah lines generate a serrated edge. Here and throughout, the musicians impart an oscillating string of disparate melodies ingrained in sojourns that ultimately deliver the KO blow. But on this piece, they calm the waters for a brief time interval, perhaps alluding to imagery of smooth sailing after experiencing rough seas. Nonetheless, the quartet's hyper-mode game-plan is offset with a multitude of dynamically concocted inventions, offering plentiful contrasts and colorizations when considering the rapidly moving parts. (Recommended...)
Track Listing
Unsettled cyclists peloton; Collapse of time; Rhubanabarb; Shape suggestion; An eccentric introvert in a study filled with broken mirrors; Astroepos; Buy 2, Take 3
Personnel
Tomasz Piqtek: tenor saxophone; Grzegorz Lesiak: guitar; Lukasz Downar: bass guitar; Krzyszlof Redas: drums.
Album information
Title: Parts Of The Entirety | Year Released: 2013 | Record Label: Cuneiform Records
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