Blunt Object: Live in Tokyo

Jazz | Mar 2005

Reviews

Micha S
Reviewed 2005-05-10
This Jazz Piano/bass/drums trio does not sound like anything else I've heard before, without being radical, in spite, to prove uniqueness. Lots of pop feeling to it (probably related to the fact that they do some covers for famous pop songs) but also some classical-romantic feeling in some tracks, a general messiness of the searching type, like you caught them in the middle of working on an art piece.
1. This rendition of Queen's 'we are the champions' begins like an Eric Satie's melancholic tune, goes into something more jazzy and ends like something more typical of the original song.
2. Sounds like music for a movie.
*3. A musical search. Begins with kind of quiet, relaxed contemplative search and accelerates to a faster more chaotic one.
*4. A more constructed piece, with touches of (maybe) a Rock opera.
5. A playful, kind of messy version of Debbie Harry's 'Heart of Glass', with a very nice Rock up-beat part at the end.
*6. A sweet theme.
*7. A long track. Begins with a beautiful quiet bass solo, to which the piano quietly joins. Further into the piece the piano starts a beautiful repetitious part that gets stormier and wilder until it resolves as something reminiscent of Chopin.
8. A more avant-garde track. Drums, bass, and a repetitious mechanical male voice.

Recent airplay

Silence Is the Question
FlowSep 21, 2005
Silence Is the Question
The Dog and Pony ShowJul 08, 2005
Silence Is the Question, Film
FlowJun 21, 2005
We Are the Champions, Heart of Glass
Heart of Glass
Memory SelectJun 17, 2005
We Are the Champions
Subcutaneous PhycomycosisMay 29, 2005

Charting

2005-05-15 — 2005-07-17 Jazz
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May 22 3

Track listing

1. We Are the Champions
2. And Here We Test Our ...
3. Guilty
4. Do Your Sums/Die Like a ...
5. Heart of Glass
6. Film
7. Silence Is the Question
8. My Funny Valentine