| Toned / Toned |
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| Album: | Toned | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Toned | Added: | Nov 2022 | |
| Label: | Self Release | |||
| Album Review |
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| HYPRK Reviewed 2022-11-11 | ||
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Totally out-of-control electroacoustic experimental / free jazz from Oakland. Snippets of philosophical spoken word poetry over a blend of spiraling saxophone, cacophonous drums, and gyrating noise. Avant-garde. Jumbled and messy but recorded quite cleanly. This is what Wolf Eyes might sound like if they did a coterm and recorded at CCRMA. For fans of unabashedly challenging music. RIYL: Roscoe Mitchell, Zoh Amba, ESP-Disk, Sick Llama, etc. FCC: 12 TRY: 8- 9 are the more accessible picks. Go with 3-5 if you’re tryna get gnarly. (1.) (3:45) Lonely spoken word intro over frantic, chopped up free jazz and bursts of static. Gentle one moment, total chaos the next (2.) (3:30) Frenzied saxophone loops over bouncy percussion. Anxious and racing (3.) (4:51) Loud and boisterous intro transitions into spacey free-jazz with tinkly percussion (4.) (1:49) Sped up jazz samples, bits of noise rock and then a great sax/drum duet for the last minute (5.) (5:51) Bursts of sax/drums layered with doomsday text-to speech recording. Then ~3 minutes of wailing sax over barren percussion (6.) (4:15) More spoken word / electroacoustic experimentation (7.) (6:50) Avant-garde saxophone experimentation with stabs of electric guitar and a bit of megaphone spoken word (8.) (6:27) Instrumental with really cool watery textures, extraterrestrial percussive elements, sleek electronica, a bit of horns. One of the more accessible tracks for sure (9.) (2:25) Vocoder vocals, a peppy keyboard beat, just a bit of moody sax (10.) (3:37) Dense free jazz with squeals of distortion (11.) (4:31) Smooth ambient bed with climbing saxophone scales and shaky maracas (12.) (9:45) (FCC) Long outro combining many of the textures, spoken elements, and choppy song structures that precede it | ||
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