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Eyot: 557799

Read "557799" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


557799 is the fifth album from Serbian jazz fusion quartet EYOT since its debut, Horizon, was released in 2011. It follows on from 2017's Innate (produced by Steve Albini in Chicago) and builds on that album's mix of prog, hard rock and jazz. But this time composer and pianist Dejan Ilijic draws on Balkan myths and traditions, composers such as John Williams and Bruckner, and Sting's album The Soul Cages. The result is another impressive, often beautiful and always intriguing ...

Album Review

Eyot: Drifters

Read "Drifters" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Quartetto serbo nato nel 2008 e qui al suo secondo album (dopo Horizon, 2010), Eyot pratica una musica (un sound, ma non solo) del tipo che sembra (voler) essere già nell'orecchio di chi ascolta ancora prima che ciò avvenga. L'iniziale “She Is Dreaming of a Better Day," per la verità, non è neanche male, con un confortante crescendo che ne cela almeno in parte la penuria di sostanza, però poi, fra i sette brani che seguono, tale situazione si ripresenta ...


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