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| West, Rich / Mayo Grout's Known Universe |
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| Add Date: | 2009-06-28 | | Pull Date: | 2009-08-30 | | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | 30 Aug | 23 Aug | 9 Aug | 26 Jul | 19 Jul | 12 Jul | 5 Jul |
| Airplays: | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Wedge
Reviewed 2009-06-25 |
A strange rock/jazz experiment that's catchy yet... out there. Rock guitar overlaid with horns and flute for a jazzy tone. "Rock" guitar meaning... well check out the solo on #2, it's like something out of a bar-band/jam-band power trio world. Yet the songs also have flute and sax in composed lines that sound classical or modern-jazzy.
Kind of a jamming feel, with rhythms you can get into and some passages of sophistication. There's a bit of a wild mood overall, but most of the tempos are in a restrained mid/fast range.
Check out the CD booklet for the Mayo Grout story, which is not as sci-fi as the pictures look like.
1- A deep, cool groove, slow and thick like molasses, with some trumpet & flute on top. Epic. Opens w/monologue in a gravely Tom Waits voice for about 3 minutes, which comes back around -6:30. After -4:30, a more full sound, slowly jazzy.
2- Midtempo riffing, a steady hard beat w/lowdown guitar solo
3- Faux loungy vocal, lyrical random silliness. Floating, open-aired stretches with sax and flute, midtempo, languid
4- "Boonga-boonga" voice chant. Bursts into a strident, jazzy riff. Upbeat, exploratory, multi-phased
5- A mid/fast breeziness, after some whistling and military snare drum
6- Gets into a nice digging groove.
7- Starts slow and spare but gets into a robust free jam behind a good rhythm.
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