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The Peeled Eye: The Peeled Eye
ByI received a CD for review, but the album is solely offered as a limited edition (300 pressings) LP and available via digital download. Otherwise, it's evident that the musicians gave it their all on this brash outing. Hauf's vicious baritone sax lines and electric guitarist Martin Siewart's distortion filled skronk and grunge phrasings frame the battlefield for the ensemble's variable improvisational exercises. They cover a surfeit of possibilities atop the rhythm section's thrusting cadences.
On "Heavy Quarters," streaming EFX processes paint the background, accelerated by Hauf's ravenous choruses and Siewart's elephantine sound-sculpting forays. Think of death metal coupled with free-jazz tactics, but they spawn inferences to Ornette Coleman's electrified, free funk albums of the 70s and 80s during "Diiiiisko," marked by the guitarist's strenuously executed and jostling chord progressions above a boisterous rhythmic deportment.
The quartet consummates the album with "PP Remains," which is a free-floating, intensifying and jaunty improv fest, featuring the frontline's call/response dialogues, heightened by Siewart's scraping and wily phraseology. Overall, the band zooms in for the kill as they aggressively tread through hazardous musical terrain amid a take no prisoners' mode of operation.
Track Listing
Kind of ; Albino Foxtrot Uranus ; Heavy Quarters ; Diiiiisko ; Nog ; Finale ; PP Remains.
Personnel
Boris Hauf: baritone saxophone, piano; Martin Siewert: guitar; Christian Weber: bass guitar; Steve Heather: drums.
Album information
Title: The Peeled Eye | Year Released: 2016 | Record Label: Shameless
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