| Reconnaissance Fly / Off By One |
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| Album: | Off By One | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Reconnaissance Fly | Added: | Dec 2016 | |
| Label: | Self-Release | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2017-01-10 | Pull Date: | 2017-03-14 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Mar 12 | Mar 5 | Feb 26 | Feb 19 | Jan 22 |
| Airplays: | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 11, 2017: | Music Casserole Dressed For Yesterday's Weather | 4. | Mar 04, 2017: | Butter and Jams Dressed For Yesterday's Weather | |
| 2. | Mar 10, 2017: | Cardinal Importance Spiders & Snakes | 5. | Mar 03, 2017: | Rebop Undeciphered | |
| 3. | Mar 10, 2017: | Rebop Dressed For Yesterday's Weather | 6. | Feb 24, 2017: | Rebop Spiders & Snakes |
| Album Review |
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| Be Sharp Reviewed 2016-12-23 | ||
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AVANT-GARDE JAZZ-ROCK Here’s a wonderful, strange mashup of jazz, rock, art-song, noise, and weird influences. By “avant-garde” I don’t mean this is dissonant, bizarre, or difficult, rather that it’s very original and slightly experimental. In fact, it’s quite approachable and a lot of fun. The leader is Polly Moller (see Zookeeper for more) on flute, voice, and occasional guitar. Other instruments are keys, reeds, bass and drums. The group was recently on Wed Night Live. No FCC issues. 1 ** Mid-tempo, then fast. A wild ride with hard edged guitar (or synth’d guitar?), melodic sax, carnival organ. Movie theme; Irish jig; who knows? Madcap craziness. Love it. (4:08) 2 * Slow, pretty flute intro; tenor sax joins in. Switch to funky elec bass, cutesy elec piano. Then flute & sax counterpoint; then piano & bass clarinet. A sung “text” is “Linear A fragments.” (This Bronze Age script hasn’t been deciphered, thus the title). (7:13) 3 Mid-tempo. Fairly straight funk-jazz on elec piano, tenor sax, bass. Nonsense lyrics were “generated by computer translation chain.” (5:15) 4 Slow. Solo clarinet opens. Then elec piano accompanies a strange sounding art song about birds singing (I think). (2:43) 5 * Mid-tempo. Lovely & gentle prog-rock instrumental with piano, flute, bells, drums. Electric guitar joins in middle. Beautiful and intricate. (7:34) | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Spiders & Snakes | 3. | Itzirktna | |||
| 2. | Undeciphered | 4. | Everyone Sang | |||
| 5. | Dressed For Yesterday's Weather | |||||