Aimtoronto Orchestra / Year Of The Boar
| Album: | Year Of The Boar | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Aimtoronto Orchestra | Added: | Jan 2012 | |
| Label: | Barnyard Records | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2012-01-22 | Pull Date: | 2012-03-25 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | Mar 18 | Mar 11 | Feb 26 | Feb 19 | Feb 12 | Feb 5 |
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| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jul 07, 2017: | Clean Copper Radio
Is It Better When I Do It Like This? |
4. | Mar 09, 2012: | No Cover, No Minimum
Is It Better When I Do It Like This? |
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| 2. | Mar 15, 2012: | maximum entropy ii
Fields |
5. | Feb 22, 2012: | maximum entropy
Year Of The Boar |
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| 3. | Mar 13, 2012: | Rebop
Is It Better When I Do It Like This? |
6. | Feb 20, 2012: | Ghost Trees
Is It Better When I Do It Like This? |
Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2012-01-21
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
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? | |||||