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Forgas Band Phenomena: L'Axe du Fou - Axis of Madness
by AAJ Italy Staff
Credo fermamente che l'universo sonoro che ha sempre ruotato attorno alla celebrata “Canterbury Scene," da Caravan, Soft Machine e National Health in qua, sia - da quando ho l'età della ragione - una delle manifestazioni sonore più belle ed intriganti dell'intera storia della musica. Chi, alla fine dei Sessanta/inizi Settanta, ne è stato stregato, non è ...
Cheer-Accident: Fear Draws Misfortune
by AAJ Italy Staff
E' un lungo percorso, un pò inaspettato, quello di questa band di Chicago. Iscritti nella scena now-wave per aver pubblicato tre albums per Skin Graft Records (la stessa di US Maple, The Flying Luttenbachers, Brise-Glace, Arab On Radar e altri), più che per effettiva comunanza stilistica tra le musiche, la band di Thymme Jones (You Fantastic!, ...
Fast 'N' Bulbous: Waxed Oop
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il repertorio di Captain Beefheart continua a fornire suggestioni e sollecitazioni al settetto guidato da Phillip Johnston e Gary Lucas. Si passa dal blues più intenso e tradizionale del brano iniziale alla follia iconoclasta di “The Blimp" e di buona parte degli altri brani selezionati accuratamente dai due leader e arrangiati con grande cura dei dettagli ...
Positive Catastrophe: Garabatos Volume One
by Martin Longley
This large New York City ensemble is co-led by cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum and the less well-known percussionist Abraham Gomez-Delgado, both of whom divide its original material between themselves. Despite potential difficulties in convening their 10-piece lineup, the band has been gigging steadily around the city, refining its carefully controlled form of anarchy. ...
Gutbucket: A Modest Proposal
by AAJ Italy Staff
A Modest Proposal, il primo album in tre anni per la band di New York, sembra, data la freschezza delle composizioni, la messa su nastro di una intensa attività dal vivo, dimensione storicamente importante per la maggior parte dei musicisti della Grande Mela. E' impossibile infatti durante l'ascolto delle 10 tracce che compongono A Modest Proposal ...
Led Bib: Sensible Shoes
by Chris May
London quintet Led Bib is one of a succession of new millennial British bands, heralded by the perversely named Acoustic Ladyland--a high decibel punk fury of tenor saxophone, electric keyboards and bass, and drums--who are tearing up the jazz rule book with an enthusiasm which renders the description “iconoclastic" inadequate. While Led Bib's moniker ...
Univers Zero: Relaps - Archives 1984-86
by Nic Jones
Even some 30 odd years after it first came into existence, Belgian band Univers Zero sounds as though it's intent upon a soundtrack for the last days of the earth, or at least the last days of human life upon it. This collection of live recordings from over twenty years ago prove it in its way, ...
Fast 'n' Bulbous: Waxed Oop
by Martin Longley
Fast 'n' Bulbous Waxed Oop Cuneiform 2009 Many people would agree with alto saxophonist Phillip Johnston's assertion that Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart) was one of the twentieth century's very greatest composers. He was also one of its key innovators, conceptualists, singers and poets. When an artist ...
Microscopic Septet: Lobster Leaps In
by Joel Roberts
Under the co-leadership of pianist Joel Forrester and soprano saxophonist Phillip Johnston, the Microscopic Septet made their mark on the Downtown scene in the '80s with a boisterous, genre-busting blend of swing, bebop and avant-garde jazz, delivered with a healthy dose of offbeat humor. Now, after a hiatus of more than a decade-and-a-half, the group once ...
Planeta Imaginario: Biomasa
by Nic Jones
Jazz-Rock fusion has become old hat in the four decades of its existence, but this Spanish octet is aware enough of that to produce music that's not only deftly executed but also leavened with a lightness of touch and heart which keeps it from being the usual turgid stuff. It's good that they haven't let themselves ...
