Jazz Articles about Ahleuchatistas

Ahleuchatistas: Heads Full of Poison

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 4, 2013

Siamo alle settima prova, la terza pubblicata dalla label Cuneiform capitanata del coraggioso Steve Feingenbaum, di questo altrettanto spericolato duo della Carolina del Nord: Shane Perlowin (chitarra e basso) e Ryan Oslance (batteria e percussioni). Il loro discorso musicale contraddistinto da iperboliche cavalcate chitarristiche e da furiosi stacchetti percussivi oscilla dal noise al metal fino a raggiungere i territori dell'improvvisazione piu radicale. Una musica cerebrale, ma allo stesso tempo diretta, carica di un'energia a volte brutale e senza filtri. Una ...

Ahleuchatistas: Location Location

by Glenn Astarita
January 21, 2012

This band with the tongue-twister moniker used to be a three-piece but these days experimental and progressive-rock guitarist Shane Perlowin and drummer Ryan Oslance execute the whole shebang as a duo. With recordings for venerable cutting-edge record labels such as Cuneiform and Tzadik amid self-produced ventures, critics and fans of the band's legacy use the term math-rock as an indicator, largely relating to geometric patterns that are designed with impossibly complex time signatures. In previous times, the musicians moved about ...

Ahleuchatistas: Of the Body Prone

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 1, 2010

La musica del quinto album di questa band che proviene dalla Carolina del Nord nasce - per stessa ammissione dei protagonisti - nei/dai giorni della guerra in Iraq. Suoni e brani che raccontano certamente di morte e rabbia. E frutto di tagli e cuciture di melodie, ricavate con forza dalle idee improvvisative. Of the Body Prone è un album dai forti contenuti, una fotografia sonora impegnativa, per chi l'ha creata e per chi si trovi ad ascoltarla. I primi 9 ...

Ahleuchatistas: Of The Body Prone

by Troy Collins
November 29, 2009

Of The Body Prone is the fifth album from the six year-old Asheville, North Carolina-based power trio Ahleuchatistas. Guitarist Shane Perlowin, bassist Derek Poteat, and new drummer Ryan Oslance fuel progressive rock structures, free improvisation and avant-garde experimentation with a brash punk rock attitude on their most expansive record to date.

Invoking the lysergic Spaghetti Western drama of Ennio Morricone, the meticulous formalism of King Crimson, the spiky angularity of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band, and the aural violence ...

Ahleuchatistas: Of The Body Prone

by Mark Corroto
October 27, 2009

Tzadik label chief John Zorn has never lost his passion for hardcore music. Although his band Naked City is no more, he continues to promote artists who, to quote Allen Ginsberg are, “destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix." The band Ahleuchatistas certainly does know how to Howl (from Ginsberg's 1956 poetry collection).

Of The Body Prone is the fifth CD release by the band and ...

Ahleuchatistas: Of The Body Prone

by Mark Corroto
October 25, 2009

Tzadik label chief John Zorn has never lost his passion for hard-core music. Although his band Naked City is no more, he continues to promote artists who, to quote Allen Ginsberg, are “destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix." The band Ahleuchatistas certainly does know how to Howl.

Of The Body Prone is the fifth CD release by the band and follows Same And The Other a reissue by ...

Ahleuchatistas: Even In The Midst....

by Nic Jones
March 30, 2008

If the notion of “post-rock" can be seen as something other than downright facetious for a moment, then the idea that such a canon would take in the likes of both Captain Beefheart and Pere Ubu ensures that Ahleuchatistas belong there also. Such labeling, arbitrary as it inevitably seems, serves a purpose in this case in locating terms. At the same time it serves no purpose at all when the hyperactivity and woozy syncopation of “Take Me to Your Leader ...