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Marc Perrenoud / Sylvain Ghio: Stream Out
by Matt Cibula
Any two guys can make a hell of a lot of noise in this world; ask Romulus and Remus, or Watson and Crick, or Jordan and Pippen. Swiss pianist Marc Perrenoud and French drummer Sylvain Ghio, both in their mid-20s, got together in Geneva this June and did exactly that. Fortunately, they remembered to bring the ...
David Krakauer & Socalled with Klezmer Madness!: Bubbemeises: Lies My Gramma Told Me
by Matt Cibula
This snappy little set combines some funky klezmer jazz with an intelligent electronic/hip-hop perspective. Does that sentence get your blood racing? It should, because there are a hell of a lot of amazing things being done in klezmer music these days, from traditional stuff to the avant-est of the avant-garde. Here, clarinetist David Krakauer and his ...
Charles Lloyd: Sangam
by Matt Cibula
At this juncture in his life and career, Charles Lloyd has become untouchable. His tone is so full of depth that it sounds good to nearly everyone who hears it; his scope is so broad that he can never be accused of coasting, yet he remains fundamentally listenable, so no one can throw labels like “obscurantist" ...
Yosvany Terry Cabrera: Metamorphosis
by Matt Cibula
When I was a teenager in Oregon, I used to listen to lots of fusion and jazz-funk on a great radio station out of Portland. I didn't exactly go around telling anyone this, but I liked it just fine all the same. I felt a little better later, when all that stuff got sampled by hip-hop ...
Grupo Choro Rasgado: Baba de Calango
by Matt Cibula
Choro, a jazz form with roots in both European classical music and Afro-Brazilian samba music, originated in Rio de Janeiro in the 1920s as Brazil's first real instrumental music. In Portuguese, “choro" means “to cry," and some choro musicians really go for the weepy stuff. But this four-piece band from Sao Paulo isn't interested in making ...
Skeleton Crew: Learn to Talk / The Country of Blinds
by Matt Cibula
Caution: this is extremely challenging listening. Fred Frith and Tom Cora's twisted pop/jazz/Americana/punk band Skeleton Crew managed all of two albums in the mid-1980s, and no wonder why--they flip back and forth wildly between dark anarchic anti-songs and weirdo hooky new-wavey stuff, sometimes even within the same song. Learn to Talk dates from 1984, and sounds ...
Greg Pagel: Plastic Machine Music
by Matt Cibula
Greg Pagel is a nut, and I mean that in the best way. I have never met him, even though we both live in Wisconsin--I know, you're shocked that we're not all huddled around the same ice-fishing hole and/or Lambeau Field brat grill, but there you have it. But yeah, Plastic Machine Music is proof enough ...
Steuart Leibig/Stigtette: Delta
by Matt Cibula
This is not exactly a jazz album, nor is it really classical music. It's really both, and it's accessible, and--despite what you might be thinking--it's kind of adorable and good. If it was a bit more forceful, and if the tracks weren't all pretty much the same, this would be quite a great recording indeed. These ...
Marco Kaeppeli / Fredi Luescher / Daniel Studer: Nomis
by Matt Cibula
Apparently there's a lot to be said for belabored, overstudied free-bop. Because that's exactly what this album is, and I like it a lot. This trio date from 2003 is finally out, and it's really quite good, despite being just a little too precise in its attempt to be imprecise, if you know what I mean. ...
Thiago Esp: Thiago
by Matt Cibula
This album might not be perfect, but it's pretty damned good--definitely good enough that we should all sit up and take notice of Thiago Esp'irito Santo, a young Brazilian who plays the electric bass like Jaco Pastorius, except without all the drugs and angst. Some tracks are solo, or solo enough that his bass is the ...
