Aimtoronto Orchestra / Year Of The Boar
Album: Year Of The Boar   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Aimtoronto Orchestra   Added:Jan 2012
Label:Barnyard Records  

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Add Date: 2012-01-22 Pull Date: 2012-03-25 Charts: Jazz
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5. Feb 22, 2012: maximum entropy
Year Of The Boar
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Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2012-01-21
AIMTORONTO ORCHESTRA: Year of the Boar
Barnyard, 2011

AVANT-GARDE – This 17-piece ensemble from the Association of Improvising Musicians Toronto performs a diverse set of adventurous original works, some definitely avant-jazz with lots of improv space, others more on the classical or new-music side. The performances are impressive: going flat out or gazing inward, stomping, clattering, droning or dancing, and turning on a dime. Some FCC-clean vocals.

Try any. Fo’s Picks: 2, 4, 5, 7

1. 5:44 – wacky march into a ponderous crawl, jumps back up, whistling end
2. 7:15 – orchestral: droning harmonies and dissonance, slowly shifting…
3. 10:04 – big scurrying squeals broken by long stretches of muttering improv
4. 14:18 – quiet burbling improv, gradually rising conflict/tension, horns/voice madness, thicket of strings, slow motion, more madness, eerie end
5. 4:28 – bouncy clockwork motion, either hypnotic or annoying, you choose
6. 20:19 – very slow start with pauses; first 7:00 build to large-scale improv, much quieter / more spacious after that, but thumping near the end
7. 7:31 – complex marionette dance… big drone builds up, then they rock out

[ Fo ] - January 2012

Track Listing
1. Year Of The Boar   4. Follow Line Flow Line Follow
2. Fields   5. Cross Fading Accents
3. Rendered In Desperation   6. Thru And Through
  7. Is It Better When I Do It Like This?