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Rob Mazurek: Mandarin Movie
by Budd Kopman
Rob Mazurek is a multifaceted artist who explores not only music but also painting and multimedia. His work reflects ideas posited by John Cage about the continuum from music to noise, but Mazurek is allied with the “underground," and Mandarin Movie might be called prog-industrial or prog-techno music, sort of analagous to prog-rock or grunge-rock. Beauty ...
Dan Nadel: Brooklyn Prayer
by Budd Kopman
Brooklyn Prayer is extremely heart-felt, and in its low-key kind of way engrossing and attractive. Some might find, however, that Nadel wears his emotions too much on his sleeve, especially with such lyrics as these: Hold me tight, my eyes will let you in.I'll wash away your pain with my smile.It's ...
Wajdi Cherif: Phrygian Istikhbar
by Budd Kopman
I approached Phrygian Istikhbar with a bit of trepidation, since the signposts of “world music as jazz were very strong. The first track, “Voyage, only reinforced my fears, since the usual elements of world music--scalar rather than melodic improvising, static or oscillating harmony, and strong, repetitive rhythmic patterns--were all present. Cherif uses a ...
Vanassextet: Amerikois
by Budd Kopman
Amérikois is a very deceptive album. It starts with “Petit Michel," which sounds very much like light jazz from a French movie, but then grows deeper in both emotion and musicality. The instrumentation changes with more use of the bass clarinet, a fabulous sound, in music with more intricate structure. Being a vibraphonist, ...
Johan Zakrisson/Joakim Milder: Irrealis
by Budd Kopman
Upon hearing the first notes of Irrealis, there was a strong sense of déjà vu that just would not quit. As “Modus Irrealis continued to play, it hit me -- Loren Stillman's How Sweet It Is! The piano voicings, Milder's tone and the flow of the melody and the interaction of the drums and bass produced ...
Agrazing Maze: At The End Of The Day
by Budd Kopman
At The End Of The Day is a very fine effort by a core trio of piano, bass, and drums, augmented by trumpet on some tracks. What is immediately clear is that the trio is very tight and has developed a high degree of communication. Technically, pianist Enrique Haneine and drummer Allison Miller are first-rate, to ...
Mats Eilertsen: Turanga
by Budd Kopman
Turanga is a low-key but intense album that is evocative of states of mind rather than sound images. The publicity sheet that came with the record has “(movement, rhythm, flow)" next to the title, and the recording certainly has those components in spades. While on the whole it has a Middle Eastern/Southeast Asia feel, it is ...
Loren Stillman: How Sweet It Is
by Budd Kopman
Occasionally a totally new CD finds its way to the player, and from the music's very first notes, just totally entrances both mind and body. These magical times are rare, but this is really what jazz is about. Furthermore, a CD that manages to make this kind of impression almost always remains able to over time, ...
Jimmy Bennington: Midnight Choir
by Budd Kopman
There is little information included about the music on Midnight Choir to prepare you for the listening experience (though there is a bio of Jimmy Bennington), and the disc starts right off quite abstractly. The first two tracks are attributed to Seth Paynter (sax) and are of a sparse, non-rhythmic, free kind that is more expressionist ...
David Borgo: Reverence for Uncertainty
by Budd Kopman
The simple cardboard sleeve of Reverence for Uncertainty is decorated with what looks like clouds against a sunset, evoking a feeling of openness and freedom, of detachment from the ground and the mundane. The music is quite remarkable and Borgo is quite a player, with a wonderful sound and total control over his instruments.
