Haas, Andy & Ken Aldcroft / Notes On The Miasms
Album: Notes On The Miasms   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Haas, Andy & Ken Aldcroft   Added:Sep 2013
Label:Resonant Music  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2013-09-01 Pull Date: 2013-11-03 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Oct 27 Oct 20 Oct 6 Sep 29 Sep 22 Sep 15 Sep 8
Airplays: 1 2 2 1 1 2 1

Recent Airplay
1. Nov 21, 2013: Rebop
Miasmatic Blues
4. Oct 17, 2013: Deathcrush
Vis Medicatrix
2. Oct 24, 2013: Rebop
Miasmatic Blues
5. Oct 05, 2013: ThermoNuclear Bar
Madness Of Two
3. Oct 17, 2013: Rebop
Vis Medicatrix
6. Oct 04, 2013: No Cover, No Minimum Sub
Inflammations

Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2013-09-01
ANDY HAAS & KEN ALDCROFT: Notes on the Miasms
Resonantmusic, 2013

AVANT-NOISE JAZZ – Duo of sax (+electronics on 1,3,6) and guitar, all music fully improvised. The pieces don’t develop very much; they’re more like paintings, exploring particular colors and textures, speeding without moving. It’s intense and uncomfortable, but without resorting to punching the listener in the face.

Fo’s Picks: 2, 4, 6

1. 8:58 – small overlapped scribblings, rolling logs, high squeals, ends quietly
2. 6:18 – sax scurries madly, guitar nudges the edge; they sync midway thru
3. 6:32 – guitar picks quickly thru woozy electronics & droning sax
4. 4:05 – a quieter, more organic piece, sax & guitar both feel calm & elastic
5. 13:40 – starts slow but soon speeds up: sax stretches & bends, then ties tight knots; guitar supports & prods insistently with short strokes
6. 8:14 – sax swoops & whirls as guitar percolates; light electronic accents
7. 4:04 – starts very quietly, gets dense, then hammers away thru 2nd half

[ Fo ] - 1 September 2013

Track Listing
1. Madness Of Two   4. Tincture Of Time
2. Vis Medicatrix   5. Inflammations
3. Les Maladies Chroniques   6. Miasmatic Blues
  7. Serial Dilution