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Mark O' Leary / Cuong Vu / Tom Rainey: Waiting
by Glenn Astarita
Two venerable New York City downtown vets, trumpeter/experimentalist Cuong Vu and drummer Tom Rainey, impart their distinct musical personas upon budding Irish guitarist Mark O'Leary's latest recording, a this studio set. Vu incorporates textural components via loops and EFX, while flexing some muscle on his trumpet. O'Leary's motivation is underscored by the works of famed Irish ...
Janet Feder + Fred Frith: Ironic Universe
by Glenn Astarita
Janet Feder and eminent guitarist/improviser Fred Frith perform twelve duet pieces on audio disc one of Ironic Universe as vacillating undercurrents, utilizing atypical tonal contrasts and implementations such as tapping sounds. With folk-ish overtones and similarities to the late John Fahey's complex chord phrasings, the duo also intertwines avant frameworks into this congenial set. At times ...
The Vector Trio: Paths Unknown
by Glenn Astarita
Paths Unknown is the result of an improvised studio session by the Vector Trio, without overdubs. Trumpeter Scott Forrey employs loops and a plugged-in horn, and the music elicits notions of an outside jazz session by trumpeter John Hassell, coupled with the free-form side of late-'60s electric Miles Davis. The rhythm section generates a bouncy, groove-laden ...
January 2007
by Glenn Astarita
Walter BeasleyReady For LoveHeads Up2006 Saxophonist/composer Walter Beasley is one of the real superstars of contemporary or smooth jazz. With several producers and a tight accompanying ensemble, he offers sounds of romance and in-the-pocket grooves. As an alto and soprano technician, Beasley sports a sweet-toned and silky-smooth delivery atop savory ...
Simone Guiducci Gramelot Ensemble: Storie di Fiume
by Glenn Astarita
Italian acoustic guitarist and composer Simone Guiducci has performed with German bass legend Eberhard Weber and American multi-reedist Chris Speed, among other notables. On Storie di Fiume, the artist's alterable Gramelot Ensemble fuses the sounds of Mediterranean folk music with spiraling improvisational forays. Guiducci's signature invocation of jazz and Italian melodies is something of a trademark ...
December 2006
by Glenn Astarita
Richard Pinhas Metatron Cuneiform 2006French guitarist and electronics wiz Richard Pinhas' soars to lofty heights on his latest album, a double-disc fiesta. He sports a blazingly fuzzed-out sound, marked by scorching single note runs and inventive sound manipulation and distortion. Pulsating, asymmetrical rhythms play a key role in ...
Gecko's Tear: Contradiction
by Glenn Astarita
This Naples, Italy-bred quartet initially started as a progressive-metal unit, then subsequently veered towards the headier scheme of rock. Toss in some Zappa-like time signatures, Yes-inspired melodic content and mainstream rock-induced inflections, and you have a group with a proclivity for contemporizing the tried and true. Guitarist/vocalist Claudio Mirone serves as the primary songsmith ...
Heritage Hall Jazz Band: Live at the American Theatre
by Glenn Astarita
Now entering its third decade, the Heritage Hall Jazz Band performed a concert at the American Theater in Hampton, Virginia, one year and a day after hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Producer Paul Lentz's insightful liner notes provide a time stamp amid the chaos and adverse conditions in the wake of the ...
Robert Henke: Layering Buddha
by Glenn Astarita
Synthesist Robert Henke celebrates the FM3 Buddha Machine on this richly ambient production that parlays the instrumentation-based sounds/loops into a sort of omnipresent reckoning. Henke cites the unit's imperfections, sampling rates and other processes with a great deal of depth and insight, especially for the micro-processor engineers out there. The artist extracts elongated sounds ...
Efzeg: Krom
by Glenn Astarita
I initially became acquainted with this Vienna-based electro-acoustic outfit through Grain (Duran, 2000). With saxophones, turntables, and the addition of high-tech instrumentation, Krom further develops Efzeg's microtonal and minimalistic methodology. The group often explores a gnomic musical panorama, intimating a rather solitary existence of barely detectable turntable scratches, subliminal effects and trance-like passages. Dynamics ...
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