| Lunge / Strong Language |
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| Album: | Strong Language | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Lunge | Added: | Mar 2003 | |
| Label: | Emanem | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2003-03-10 | Pull Date: | 2003-05-12 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | May 11 | Apr 20 | Mar 16 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | May 09, 2003: | Memory Select No Filters | 3. | Mar 14, 2003: | Memory Select Planarchy [excerpt] | |
| 2. | Apr 18, 2003: | Memory Select No Filters | ||||
| Album Review |
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| Craig Matsumoto Reviewed 2003-04-14 | ||
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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 | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Planarchy | 4. | No Filters | |||
| 2. | Rough with the Smooth | 5. | Mull It Over | |||
| 3. | White Writeable Area | 6. | Rothko |