Lotz, Mark Alban / Lotz Of Music / Bite!
Album: Bite!   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Lotz, Mark Alban / Lotz Of Music   Added:Apr 2009
Label:Loplop Productions  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2009-05-03 Pull Date: 2009-07-05 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Jul 5 Jun 28 Jun 21 Jun 14 Jun 7 May 31 May 24 May 17
Airplays: 1 2 1 1 1 2 2 1

Recent Airplay
1. Jan 08, 2022: Music Casserole
Waiting For Prey, Tell Me Everything
4. Sep 11, 2009: No Cover, No Minimum
Corny Water Music
2. Apr 13, 2012: No Cover, No Minimum
Waiting For Prey
5. Jun 30, 2009: No Cover, No Minimum: Tuesday Edition
Corny Water Music
3. Mar 11, 2011: No Cover, No Minimum
Habidi Brown Fish
6. Jun 26, 2009: Memory Select
Corny Water Music

Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2009-05-03
MARK ALBAN LOTZ & LOTZ OF MUSIC: Bite!
LopLop, 2009

MODERN JAZZ – Oh, how awesome is this… music composed for a Dutch multimedia project about fish. It’s fun, unpredictable, and loaded with unique sounds including prepared piano, PVC flute, and a rubber-band thingy they call a “brim-bram.” The longer tracks are more melodic/jazzy, the short tracks have an avant/improv feel. Very cool.

* * * * | All tracks good. Fo’s Picks: 1, 2, 7, 12, 13, 15

1. 2:39 – splashy/perky… then cool stroll with big bassline & funny squeaks
2. 4:50 – laid-back groove & percolating flute riff, relaxed round of jazzy solos
3. 0:20 – circus-like interlude
4. 0:42 – low and bubbly, with murmuring vocal sounds
5. 5:23 – upbeat 5/4 tune: happy flute goes to town over catchy rhythm
6. 0:50 – prepared piano and liquid deep-sea atmosphere
7. 2:17 – exotic: dual flutes weave gently over a deep reverberating rhythm
8. 0:51 – the sharks are circling… creepy!
9. 6:10 – floating, bittersweet; burbling percussion, crescendo in the middle
10. 1:08 – weird organic gurgles alternate with sedate piano
11. 1:30 – strange metallic wobbles, steady flute floats thru, unperturbed
12. 4:51 – pvc pipe “flute,” tick-tock rhythm, mysterious with mounting tension
13. 3:34 – scattered rhythm, comic sounds come together in a prideful way
14. 1:23 – slow chamber melody over wet clattery sounds & ululations
15. 4:24 – splashing & gongs, then flowing cello & flute melody… really nice.
16. 3:28 – slow-motion flute & cello pas de deux, well done
17. 2:10 – slow, careful melody with many exotic sounds around the edges
18. 0:45 – an amorphous blob
19. 4:43 – calm, lyrical, dignified with just a hint of mystery

[ Fo ] 05/03/09

Track Listing
1. Corny Water Music   11. Electric Eel Lullaby
2. Habidi Brown Fish   12. Waiting For Prey
3. Chasing The Clownfish   13. Of Royal Herring (Den Koninklijke Haring)
4. Fish Jive   14. In Love?
5. Get Along With Mating Squids   15. The Bathyscaaf
6. Going Down   16. Seahorse Duet
7. Fields Of Garden Eels   17. Jellyfish Lullaby
8. Bite!   18. Coral Lives!
9. Tell Me Everything   19. This Fish
10. Oops Swallowed   .