Fernandez, Agusti/Mats Gustafsson / Critical Mass
Album: Critical Mass   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Fernandez, Agusti/Mats Gustafsson   Added:Dec 2005
Label:Psi Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2005-12-18 Pull Date: 2006-02-19 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Feb 19 Jan 29 Jan 22 Jan 15 Jan 8 Jan 1
Airplays: 2 1 1 1 1 1

Recent Airplay
1. Sep 14, 2011: Memory Select
Critical Mass 1
4. Jan 27, 2006: Memory Select
Critical Mass 10
2. Feb 17, 2006: Memory Select
Critical Mass 2
5. Jan 20, 2006: Memory Select
Critical Mass 3
3. Feb 16, 2006: Eran Mukamel f. Pung (sprechstimme)
Critical Mass 9
6. Jan 13, 2006: Memory Select
Critical Mass 1

Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2005-12-18
Piano/sax duets, abstract improvised stuff with jazz roots and, from Gustafsson on sax, some acrid punk energy. On the louder tracks, Fernandez counters by hammering on the piano's low notes for a grumbly, burly sound. Other tracks go for an artsy quietness.

1- Fast soft patter. Dark and increasingly rumbly/aggressive.
2- Fast plinking, a rapid flow
3- Tumbling and fierce, goes to 11 for a brief point
4- Near-silent.
5- Slow, quavering tones. Some blank patches.
6- Scraping the piano strings, then some bursts of activity
7- Scattery, fast
8- Soft popping sounds, fast and quiet
9- Rumbling quietly, into crashing piano
10- Dire and fast

Track Listing
1. Critical Mass 1   6. Critical Mass 6
2. Critical Mass 2   7. Critical Mass 7
3. Critical Mass 3   8. Critical Mass 8
4. Critical Mass 4   9. Critical Mass 9
5. Critical Mass 5   10. Critical Mass 10