Haas, Andy / Don Fiorino / American Nocturne
Album: American Nocturne   Collection:General
Artist:Haas, Andy / Don Fiorino   Added:Nov 2018
Label:Resonant Music  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2018-11-16 Pull Date: 2019-01-18
Week Ending: Jan 13 Dec 23 Dec 16 Dec 9
Airplays: 2 2 2 2

Recent Airplay
1. Jan 12, 2019: Music Casserole
Days Of Jackals
4. Dec 19, 2018: Brownian Motion
Days Of Jackals
2. Jan 09, 2019: Brownian Motion
Days Of Jackals
5. Dec 12, 2018: Brownian Motion
Days Of Jackals
3. Dec 21, 2018: Old Fart at Play
Days Of Jackals
6. Dec 10, 2018: regular school
Days Of Jackals

Album Review
Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2018-11-20
Experimental saxophonist Haas teams up with guitarist Don Fiorino for a decidedly trippy dreamy worldy experience. Dissonant use of the instruments in an ethereal manner, very similar to the works of John Hassel, Eno, Derek Baily. Lovely stuff from Toronto artist who goes back the 80’s non-sensation new wave punk band Martha and the Muffins.

1) (4:24) Waning Empire Blues - downtempo spacey, drum beat has a table quality and instruments are slidey and bendy and trippy and string based (guitar etc) 2) (3:25) American Nocturne – treated horns appear in this more laid back sultry piece 3) (7:54) Degenerate Time – spazzy percussion and a more free jazz improv tone 4) (4:33) Prophets – tabla appears in ernest 5)* (9:13) tripped out effects, synth-like to begin, a middle eastern Oud type stringed thing in with the melee, cool 6) (2:43) Profits – abstract improv free feel with wacky percussion type effects, sax, random guitar 7) (6:00) Falling Rockets – slow drum beat, treated heavily, guitar figures highly in this meandering piece where the drums just want to surface and tease an actual beat at one point 8) (3:24) New Orphans – mostly abstract improv feel, collage 9) (5:07) False Witness – a drum beat again tries to break in but isn’t allowed to fully

Track Listing
1. Waning Empire Blues   6. Profits
2. American Nocturne   7. Falling Rockets
3. Degenerate Time   8. New Orphans
4. Prophets   9. False Witness
5. Days Of Jackals   .