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Sex Mob: Sexotica
by Brad Glanden
The easy listening boom of the middle 20th Century gave rise to some highly esoteric music. The “space age" fashions embraced by many a swinger hinted at a future that was never to materialize; an eagerness to test out new hi-fi systems resulted in a proliferation of quirkily arranged, bizarrely mixed records by bandleaders like Esquivel ...
David S. Ware: Live in the World
by Marc Medwin
I have never seen the far-fabled David S. Ware Quartet in concert--and, as their gig at this year's Vision Festival was their last US appearance, I probably never will. It did not seem as much of a loss until I heard this 2004 triple-disc document. The public praise, echoing what accompanied the classic Coltrane quartet, was ...
Exotique
Album: Sexotica
By Sexmob
Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2006
Duration: 5:44
Eri Yamamoto: Cobalt Blue
by James Taylor
Cobalt Blue is not your average piano trio record, because Eri Yamamoto is not your average pianist. Nonetheless, throughout the record, we are greeted with familiar phrases in voices that remind us of old friends--Keith Jarrett with DeJohnette on standards, even a little Evans or Gershwin. Lots of McCoy Tyner. Yamamoto's music is equal parts playfully ...
Sex Mob: Sexotica
by Mark Corroto
The only way to out-mob Steven Bernstein's Sex Mob is to go into the studio (as laboratory) and manipulate its sound. Sexotica is the group's fifth full-length release and its debut on Thirsty Ear Records, a label which has no hesitation to throw in handfuls of Teo Macero. The sampling and studio production by Good and ...
Sex Mob: Sexotica
by Troy Collins
Sex Mob, a riotous avant party band, dedicates its fourth album to the father of exotica, Martin Denny. The group dabbled in subtle electronic production techniques with renowned hip-hop producer Scotty Hard on 2003's Dime Store Grind (Ropeadope). Assisted by the production team of GoodandEvil (Danny Blume and Chris Castagno), Sex Mob travels further afield here ...
Eri Yamamoto: Cobalt Blue
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
When the Bad Plus covered Nirvana's “Smells Like Teen Spirit" a few years back, it sounded (a little) like a long-lost track from John Coltrane's rhythm section; thus did the Love Supreme virus erupt in the least likely of contexts. Pianist Eri Yamamoto's Cobalt Blue, a trio performance with bassist David Ambrosio and ...
Carl Hancock Rux: Good Bread Alley
by Troy Collins
Poet and spoken word artist Carl Hancock Rux makes his Thirsty Ear debut with Good Bread Alley. Long considered to be a genre-bending musician who skirts the boundaries between a variety of styles--new soul, underground hip-hop, rhythm and blues, electronica, psychedelia, funk, free jazz, and everything in between--Rux is a natural candidate for Thirsty Ear's genre-eradicating ...
Nils Petter Molvaer: An American Compilation
by James Taylor
An American Compilation introduces stateside audiences to the electronica-meets-jazz sound of Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer. Mixing jazz, ambient, house, breakbeat and drum 'n' bass, Molvaer's sound is best summed up as “Neo-Cool. Seriously--all the elements of classic 1950's cool jazz are there, from Molvaer's sensual and lyrical playing (a la Chet Baker) to the lush, ...
Nils Petter Molvaer: An American Compilation
by Chris May
In the 35 years since Miles Davis first put foot to wah-wah pedal, any number of musicians have tried to develop the original, shocking impacts of his 1969-74 electric recordings, or even just plain replicate them. (Davis himself tried, with generally disappointing results, throughout the 1980s.) Current pretenders to Davis' electric legacy include two trumpeters: France's ...
