| E.S.T. / Leucocyte |
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| Album: | Leucocyte | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | E.S.T. | Added: | Oct 2008 | |
| Label: | Decca Music Group Ltd. | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2008-12-14 | Pull Date: | 2009-02-15 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Feb 15 | Feb 1 | Jan 18 | Jan 11 | Dec 28 | Dec 21 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Aug 12, 2017: | No Cover, No Minimum: Saturday Edition Premonition: 1. Earth | 4. | Oct 17, 2009: | Music Casserole Premonition: 2. Contorted | |
| 2. | Aug 30, 2014: | The Proselytizer Radio News Hour Leucocyte: Ab Initio | 5. | Feb 13, 2009: | Memory Select Leucocyte: Ad Mortem | |
| 3. | Jan 29, 2011: | Music Casserole Premonition: 2. Contorted | 6. | Jan 31, 2009: | Music Casserole Premonition: 2. Contorted |
| Album Review |
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| Fo Reviewed 2008-12-14 | ||
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E.S.T.: Leucocyte EmArcy, 2008 POSTMODERN JAZZ – E.S.T. (the Esbjörn Svensson Trio) built up a huge following in Europe by combining hushed modern jazz with electronics and elements of both classical and rock. This recording, taken from a 2-day jam retreat in 2007, is much more daring than their other material and suggests a more experimental direction for the band. But Svensson was killed in a diving accident in June 2008. Fo’s Picks: jazzy: 2, 3 | rocking: 7 | just weird: 9, 10 1. 01:17 – melancholy solo piano etude 2. 17:07 – cool bassline vs. moody atmosphere: fuzzed-out piano moves from scattered phrases to straight jazz; electronic textures build up, flow and stall; drums kick it up into a very thick, insistent postrock jam… 3. 06:18 – slow, spacious jazz ballad, with radio static & odd electronic swirls 4. 04:17 – strange electronics drop out for a straightahead modern-bop romp 5. 09:55 – enigmatic, reptilian, gloopy effects. Slowly becomes ethereal, tinkly 6. 01:36 – pensive piano interlude 7. 08:51 – loud, sluggish instrumental rock, dense, tense and sinister 8. 01:00 – silence. 9. 13:08 – experimental soundscape: fuzzed instruments, monotone bass, then tweaked-out piano noodling in a strange churning beat, turns quiet & spacey, then a lengthy, repetitive ballad-like section 10. 04:38 – unsettling: a loop from track 9 continues, with space synth tones (or are those sampled voices?)… additional layers come and go [ Fo ] 14-Dec-08 | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Decade | 6. | Ajar | |||
| 2. | Premonition: 1. Earth | 7. | Leucocyte: Ab Initio | |||
| 3. | Premonition: 2. Contorted | 8. | Leucocyte: Ad Interim | |||
| 4. | Jazz | 9. | Leucocyte: Ad Mortem | |||
| 5. | Still | 10. | Leucocyte: Ad Infinitum |