Hanuman Sextet / 9 Meals From Anarchy
Album: | 9 Meals From Anarchy | Collection: | Jazz | |
Artist: | Hanuman Sextet | Added: | Apr 2009 | |
Label: | Resonant Music |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2009-06-14 | Pull Date: | 2009-08-16 | Charts: | Jazz |
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Week Ending: | Aug 16 | Jul 19 | Jul 12 | Jun 21 |
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Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Aug 14, 2009: | Memory Select: RIP Rashied Ali
Salt Lane Rock |
4. | Jun 19, 2009: | Memory Select
On A Slippery Slope |
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2. | Jul 17, 2009: | Memory Select, guest Rent Romus
Come Down, Darkness |
5. | Jun 17, 2009: | KZSU's Heartbleeps
Come Down, Darkness |
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3. | Jul 11, 2009: | Music Casserole
Come Down, Darkness |
Album Review
Wedge
Reviewed 2009-06-07
Reviewed 2009-06-07
Free jazz improvisations with some bits of Eastern motifs and a quilted, flowing style with lots of harp and the twang of a lap steel guitar, along with sax, various exotic reeds, and bass and drums. The result goes beyond a simple "free jazz" description, incorporating some psych elements, some trancelike experimenting, and occasional traces of jazz or even country/western tunefulness.
See also: Andy Haas and Don Fiorino, "Death Don't Have No Mercy."
Rhythmic, inside - 1, 2, 4, 6
Out there - 5, 7!, 9
Interesting free jamming w/Eastern touches-- 8,9
Andy Haas -- sax, raita, morsing, electronics
Don Fiorino -- lotar, lap steel guitar
Mia Theodoratus -- electric harp
Matt Heyner -- bass, erhu
David Gould -- drums, percussion
Dee Pop -- drums, percussion
1- Psych drone, elements of spaghetti Western. Ends up in a smoky jazz place.
2- A happy picnic/festival feel
3- Floating feel, with dense drums. Abstract but nice.
4- Booking, rhythmic little jamming, a vaguely exotic feel to a straight groove. By -7:30, dissolves into a free but still driven improv with fast burbling sax.
5- Mystic sounds over twanging steel guitar.
6- Pretty, calm, serene. Almost a lite jazz air.
7- Chaotic, springy improv. Harp with distortion. An open feel; tumbling pebbles.
8- The most mystical/Eastern sounding of the tracks, starting with a quiet but disquieting meditation on a reed instrument, building up to a stormy, heavy improvisation.
9- Busy yet subdued. Opens with soft yet eerie quasi-mystical airs. Gets tougher and turns into a spirited flow for the last few minutes.
10- Electric harp distortion! vs. a pleasant sax melody. Builds into a scribbly free-jazz segment, then winds down contentedly.
See also: Andy Haas and Don Fiorino, "Death Don't Have No Mercy."
Rhythmic, inside - 1, 2, 4, 6
Out there - 5, 7!, 9
Interesting free jamming w/Eastern touches-- 8,9
Andy Haas -- sax, raita, morsing, electronics
Don Fiorino -- lotar, lap steel guitar
Mia Theodoratus -- electric harp
Matt Heyner -- bass, erhu
David Gould -- drums, percussion
Dee Pop -- drums, percussion
1- Psych drone, elements of spaghetti Western. Ends up in a smoky jazz place.
2- A happy picnic/festival feel
3- Floating feel, with dense drums. Abstract but nice.
4- Booking, rhythmic little jamming, a vaguely exotic feel to a straight groove. By -7:30, dissolves into a free but still driven improv with fast burbling sax.
5- Mystic sounds over twanging steel guitar.
6- Pretty, calm, serene. Almost a lite jazz air.
7- Chaotic, springy improv. Harp with distortion. An open feel; tumbling pebbles.
8- The most mystical/Eastern sounding of the tracks, starting with a quiet but disquieting meditation on a reed instrument, building up to a stormy, heavy improvisation.
9- Busy yet subdued. Opens with soft yet eerie quasi-mystical airs. Gets tougher and turns into a spirited flow for the last few minutes.
10- Electric harp distortion! vs. a pleasant sax melody. Builds into a scribbly free-jazz segment, then winds down contentedly.
Track Listing