| West, Rich / Mayo Grout's Known Universe |
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| Album: | Mayo Grout's Known Universe | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | West, Rich | Added: | Apr 2009 | |
| Label: | PfMENTUM | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-06-28 | Pull Date: | 2009-08-30 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Aug 30 | Aug 23 | Aug 9 | Jul 26 | Jul 19 | Jul 12 | Jul 5 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Aug 29, 2009: | Party at Grandma's Es-I | 4. | Aug 18, 2009: | Jena & Gomorrah (sub) I'm A Cockroach; Adapt, Adapt - Part 1 | |
| 2. | Aug 28, 2009: | Memory Select - Joe Maneri Edition Five Lane Paradise | 5. | Aug 06, 2009: | The Alternatives Short I Am | |
| 3. | Aug 22, 2009: | Music Casserole Es-I | 6. | Jul 24, 2009: | Memory Select Five Lane Paradise |
| Album Review |
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| Wedge Reviewed 2009-06-25 | ||
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A strange rock/jazz experiment that's catchy yet... out there. Rock guitar overlaid with horns and flute for a jazzy tone. "Rock" guitar meaning... well check out the solo on #2, it's like something out of a bar-band/jam-band power trio world. Yet the songs also have flute and sax in composed lines that sound classical or modern-jazzy. Kind of a jamming feel, with rhythms you can get into and some passages of sophistication. There's a bit of a wild mood overall, but most of the tempos are in a restrained mid/fast range. Check out the CD booklet for the Mayo Grout story, which is not as sci-fi as the pictures look like. 1- A deep, cool groove, slow and thick like molasses, with some trumpet & flute on top. Epic. Opens w/monologue in a gravely Tom Waits voice for about 3 minutes, which comes back around -6:30. After -4:30, a more full sound, slowly jazzy. 2- Midtempo riffing, a steady hard beat w/lowdown guitar solo 3- Faux loungy vocal, lyrical random silliness. Floating, open-aired stretches with sax and flute, midtempo, languid 4- "Boonga-boonga" voice chant. Bursts into a strident, jazzy riff. Upbeat, exploratory, multi-phased 5- A mid/fast breeziness, after some whistling and military snare drum 6- Gets into a nice digging groove. 7- Starts slow and spare but gets into a robust free jam behind a good rhythm. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | I'm A Cockroach; Adapt, Adapt - Part 1 | 4. | Newness | |||
| 2. | Short I Am | 5. | I'm A Cockroach; Adapt, Adapt - Part 2 | |||
| 3. | On Her Wrists She Wore Her Interest | 6. | Five Lane Paradise | |||
| 7. | Es-I | |||||