Strong Language
Jazz
| Mar 2003
Reviews
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2003-04-14
Reviewed 2003-04-14
Free improv from Britain (not the same as the band "Lunge" that gave us a couple of 7" records in the '90s).
Sound/improv quartet with an often quiet bent, led by trombone. Electronics noises are in here as well, like an underlying quilt of cluttery sounds.
Try #2 if you're looking for abstract music that isn't a loud blur. #1 gets too quiet for radio, methinks. Good overall, but I've always felt that "free improv" trombone is a bad fit, the trombone being both too loud and too slow/clunky, making it a mood-breaker too often. Which happens here quite a bit.
1- Engaging, clunky start. Kicks up a notch at -9:30. Last several minutes are quiet with lots of air-through-the-horn sounds
2*- Sparse and quiet, not bad
3- Sparse again. -9:00 to -5:00 is a nice stretch that includes some refreshingly "normal" trombone playing
4*- Fast jumble, loud
5*- More quietness, driven by some rich percussion. Gets loud at -3:30 (a nice break point) and at the end.
6*- Mournful and even melodic
Sound/improv quartet with an often quiet bent, led by trombone. Electronics noises are in here as well, like an underlying quilt of cluttery sounds.
Try #2 if you're looking for abstract music that isn't a loud blur. #1 gets too quiet for radio, methinks. Good overall, but I've always felt that "free improv" trombone is a bad fit, the trombone being both too loud and too slow/clunky, making it a mood-breaker too often. Which happens here quite a bit.
1- Engaging, clunky start. Kicks up a notch at -9:30. Last several minutes are quiet with lots of air-through-the-horn sounds
2*- Sparse and quiet, not bad
3- Sparse again. -9:00 to -5:00 is a nice stretch that includes some refreshingly "normal" trombone playing
4*- Fast jumble, loud
5*- More quietness, driven by some rich percussion. Gets loud at -3:30 (a nice break point) and at the end.
6*- Mournful and even melodic
Recent airplay
No Filters
Memory Select — May 09, 2003
No Filters
Memory Select — Apr 18, 2003
Planarchy [excerpt]
Memory Select — Mar 14, 2003
Charting
2003-03-10 — 2003-05-12
Jazz
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| May 11 | 1 |
| Apr 20 | 1 |
| Mar 16 | 1 |
Track listing
| 1. | Planarchy | ||
| 2. | Rough with the Smooth | ||
| 3. | White Writeable Area | ||
| 4. | No Filters | ||
| 5. | Mull It Over | ||
| 6. | Rothko |