New American Wing / New American Wing
Album: | New American Wing | Collection: | Jazz | |
Artist: | New American Wing | Added: | Feb 2006 | |
Label: | Self-Release |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2006-02-12 | Pull Date: | 2006-04-16 | Charts: | Jazz |
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Week Ending: | Mar 19 | Mar 12 | Feb 26 | Feb 19 |
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Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Apr 18, 2006: | Umami Jazz Program
Hot Minerva |
4. | Mar 10, 2006: | Memory Select
Hot Minerva |
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2. | Mar 17, 2006: | Memory Select
Upside-Down Turtle |
5. | Feb 24, 2006: | Memory Select
The Hare |
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3. | Mar 16, 2006: | Rock in a Position: phoning it in edition
The Hare |
6. | Feb 17, 2006: | Memory Select
X |
Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2006-02-10
Reviewed 2006-02-10
Avant-chamber-jazz trio of trumpet, guitar, and cello, with comforting but oblique compositions that lean towards post-rock, mostly in yummy 3-minute nibbles. Accessible stuff, often slow/pretty, with melodies that slip out of "normal" space (15 is a good example) the way jazz tends to do. Look up the band 33.3 -- these guys are relaxing like that but more complex.
PR materials praise the group as a new form of jazz and quote Eugene Chadbourne and Anthony Braxton singing the band's praises, so they must be for real, right? I'm just being cynical -- this is nice stuff deserving of an audience, and it does tickle the "jazz" part of my brain.
5,10,14 -- Fast jazzy snippets, perky. Under 1 minute each.
1- Stiff, overlapping, wandering lines. Lush near end
2- Soft; a bit like Euro cafe/sidewalk music. Slow and pretty.
3- Slow, w/train-whistle twang
4- Odd 7/8 groove with floaty leads
6- Swaying and slowish
7- Rolling, folky feel w/strummed guitar. Pretty. Mid/fast
8- Shimmering, slow. Solo guitar.
9- Dreamy, w/surreal turns later on
11- Dramatic sweeps. Jazzy flavor, gets a bit crazy.
12- Slow country guitar
13- Slow cello, into floaty group work
15- Slow, peaceful, sad
16- Soft cello/guitar duet
PR materials praise the group as a new form of jazz and quote Eugene Chadbourne and Anthony Braxton singing the band's praises, so they must be for real, right? I'm just being cynical -- this is nice stuff deserving of an audience, and it does tickle the "jazz" part of my brain.
5,10,14 -- Fast jazzy snippets, perky. Under 1 minute each.
1- Stiff, overlapping, wandering lines. Lush near end
2- Soft; a bit like Euro cafe/sidewalk music. Slow and pretty.
3- Slow, w/train-whistle twang
4- Odd 7/8 groove with floaty leads
6- Swaying and slowish
7- Rolling, folky feel w/strummed guitar. Pretty. Mid/fast
8- Shimmering, slow. Solo guitar.
9- Dreamy, w/surreal turns later on
11- Dramatic sweeps. Jazzy flavor, gets a bit crazy.
12- Slow country guitar
13- Slow cello, into floaty group work
15- Slow, peaceful, sad
16- Soft cello/guitar duet
Track Listing
1. | Hot Minerva | 9. | Toxic | |||
2. | Upside-Down Turtle | 10. | Smile At Your Graves | |||
3. | Slow Dance | 11. | Cosmology | |||
4. | The Hare | 12. | All Is Vanity | |||
5. | X | 13. | Fleeing Ghost | |||
6. | Third Man | 14. | Trista-Faux | |||
7. | Over And Over | 15. | You Must Eat | |||
8. | Line Drawing #18 | 16. | Stand And Be Counted |