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Neil Cowley Trio: Radio Silence
By Track review of "Vice Skating"With cascading block chords and memorable choruses, the pianist ventures into a lush, romantic domain with a twist or two on "Vice Skating." The band's youthful presence and cunning designs invert standard piano trio fare with off-kilter detours, false endings and pulsating unison lines that pose alternating viewpoints.
Cowley's rolling chord clusters and the trio's pumping rock beats add oomph to a lush melody, but it's an arrangement that translucently fuses positive sensibilities with pure power, fluency and tender notes, as a series of odd-metered pauses and regenerations of the primary theme help spawn a tension-and-release environment.
"Vice Skating" is a remarkably coherent composition that offers a comprehensive glimpse into the trio's novel convictions. Paralleling the likes of The Bad Plus and Medeski Martin & Wood, the Neil Cowley Trio works within a mode that harmoniously turns the tide on convention. .
Track Listing
Monoface; Radio Silence; Vice Skating; A French Lesson; Gerald; Desert To Rabat; Stereoface; Hug The Greyhound; Portal.
Personnel
Neil Cowley
pianoNeil Cowley: piano; Richard Sadler: bass; Evan Jenkins: drums.
Album information
Title: Radio Silence | Year Released: 2011 | Record Label: Naim Label
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