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
Week Ending: Aug 16 Jul 19 Jul 12 Jun 21
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
2. Jul 17, 2009: Memory Select, guest Rent Romus
Come Down, Darkness
5. Jun 17, 2009: KZSU's Heartbleeps
Come Down, Darkness
3. Jul 11, 2009: Music Casserole
Come Down, Darkness

Album Review
Wedge
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.

Track Listing
1. Come Down, Darkness   6. Petit Coup
2. Salt Lane Rock   7. On A Slippery Slope
3. Elegy For The Time At Hand   8. The Notebooks Of Mahmoud Darwish
4. Bowery Binky   9. Winds Of Madness
5. Beyond The Walls   10. Everything Happens To Me