| Fire Room / Broken Music |
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| Album: | Broken Music | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Fire Room | Added: | May 2008 | |
| Label: | Atavistic/Truckstop Audio | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2008-08-24 | Pull Date: | 2008-10-26 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Oct 26 | Oct 19 | Oct 12 | Sep 28 | Sep 21 | Sep 7 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Oct 24, 2008: | Memory Select Dashboard Fire | 4. | Sep 26, 2008: | Memory Select Broken Music 1 | |
| 2. | Oct 17, 2008: | Memory Select: Tom Djll's "Mockracy" Line Of Lead | 5. | Sep 19, 2008: | Memory Select, early edition Hand Lettered | |
| 3. | Oct 10, 2008: | Memory Select Slag | 6. | Sep 05, 2008: | Memory Select When Water Burns Air |
| Album Review |
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| Craig Matsumoto Reviewed 2008-08-16 | ||
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For fans of Lasse Marhaug's noisy, crunchy electronics albums that went through A-file recently.... here he is in a tough-fisted jazz context: Abrasive electronics join sax and drums for an interesting free-jazz trio, featuring Chicago kingpin Ken Vandermark on the sax. The electronics are particularly aggressive -- not little bleeps and squeaks, but loud, sandpapery scrapes. It's sometimes like the sound of a fire blazing (see #4), which might be where the band name comes from. Vandermark plays hard most of the time, for an overall aggressive, blazing session. Paul Nilssen-Love (drums) Ken Vandermark (tenor/baritone saxes) Lasse Marhaug (electronics) 1- A psych-sounding loop, buzzy. Into a hot-tempo sax solo. 2- Lots of blank space. It's spare, not necessarily quiet. Some squirrelly sax peppers the final minutes, but it's still played as if in a gaping, still space. 3- Bouncy, quickly gets into a fast sax/drums duet. 4- Slow-moving. Starts quiet; gets louder but with slowish, soft notes over wheezy electronics sounds. Ends with an electronics "solo" resembling a burning building. 5- Stacatto clutter and a burly, abrasive sax. A tough, macho mood. 6- Quick jabbing sax and drums; hovering electronic twiddles. Fairly fast. 7- Patient, hovering start (but still fairly aggressive). Explodes in the last few minutes. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Broken Music 1 | 4. | Hand Lettered | |||
| 2. | Slag | 5. | Dashboard Fire | |||
| 3. | When Water Burns Air | 6. | Line Of Lead | |||
| 7. | Broken Music 2 | |||||