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Jazz | Jan 2007

Reviews

mufaor
Reviewed 2007-03-12
Free jazz / mixed genre bizarreness. Great. F’ed up, raw, cerebral, visceral, creepy, assaulting, free. ‘Nuf said. Instruments include: turntables, guitar (electric and acoustic), soprano sax, bass, percussion, and “little objects”. 11 and 13 sound most like “jazz” if you’re looking for that.

1. Static / soft electronic sounds start, creepy bass clarinet joins.
*2. Tweaked out r2d2 with prepared guitar (acoustic and electric) and skronky clarinet.
**3. Crunchy electronic monster snoring + fast-picked prepared guitar + clarinet. Please tell me that’s turntable scratching around 1 minute in – it sounds so great. A ton of different sounds/genres together here.
4. Clarinet starts, soft kitchen percussion, creepy motor roar creeps in. @ 2:15 left noodly plucked tweaky guitar + messed up turntables + sax.
5. Could almost be a tweaky rock song at first. Mellow compared to the other tracks, until the electronics get scary the last minute. @ 60-20 second left, beautiful.
6. Jaw harp, frilly speechlike sax, scraping metal, very danceable (sic).
*7. Sax and... some other similar-sounding instrument (oboe/bagpipe/kazoo???) wailing in harmony over ticky gongy percussion/electronics/guitar. Creepy.
*8. Industrial free jazz? Very dark, ecstatically low down soulful pining/singing. Right out of Dante’s Inferno.
9. Tweaky skittery ensemble, high-mid pitch. Like an interlude.
*10. Sounds like the machinations of a delicate robot digesting. Kinda droney, dark.
11. Bass, clarinet, percussion, jazziest track.
12. Cute clarinet melody, broken bass bowing, shaker/rattle percussion.
*13. Groovy bass, purring something, skittery percussion. Jazzy.

Recent airplay

Babalou
Memory SelectMay 11, 2007
Dohseedoh
Cognitive OverloadMay 10, 2007
Six Degrees
the jewish alternativeMay 04, 2007
Babalou
Memory SelectApr 27, 2007
Poussiere De Lune
Whatever It isApr 22, 2007
Poussiere De Lune
Cognitive OverloadMar 31, 2007

Charting

2007-03-11 — 2007-05-13 Jazz
Week EndingAirplays
May 13 2
May 6 1
Apr 29 2
Apr 1 1
Mar 25 1
Mar 18 3

Track listing

1. Skroawng
2. The Tribe Of Triclops
3. Dohseedoh
4. Seven
5. Spaghetti Brule
6. Chrysalis
7. Babalou
8. Poussiere De Lune
9. Lipsync
10. The Light Of Night
11. Six Degrees
12. Ipanemean Trionychid
13. Tigresse