martes, 28 de octubre de 2014

Architecture of the absurd - Beluga (2014)



"ARCHITECTURE OF THE ABSURD recoge influencias de bandas como Van Der Graaf Generator, Gentle Giant o King Crimson, las tamiza por un filtro de Mr. Bungle y las representa en un imaginario Circo del Sol. El resultado no puede ser mas impredecible. Nada es lo que parece, y no se parece a nada.

Toda esta especie de mundo paralelo sin sentido ha sido creado por Lorenzo Matellán y Razl, dos músicos caracterizados por una inquietud creativa ilimitada alimentada por una capacidad para transformar lo sencillo y bonito en raro y extraño que da un poco de miedo. O al menos inquieta. A través de sus composiciones, Architecture of the absurd proponen situaciones imaginarias basadas en cuentos, películas o historias que han escuchado a terceros, y las plasman en letras muy directas y con un extraordinario doble sentido.

Lorenzo Matellán es un teclista e ingeniero de sonido caracterizado por la inquietud y la necesidad de ser musicalmente libre. Está obsesionado con romper sus propias barreras eliminando complejos mediante maquinas capaces de generar sonidos absurdos. Su máxima principal: todo vale menos la palabra “ni”.

Razl es un guitarrista fuera de lo normal. Tras la búsqueda incesante de si mismo, descubrió que era mas de una persona, lo que le llevó a fundar Beluga. Sus discos en solitario, “Rotonova” y “Microscopic“, obtuvieron muy buenas críticas en medios especializados, pero ahora, por fin abraza sin complejos, el proyecto que le lanzará a la fama cósmica. Sea lo que sea lo que eso significa.

La presencia del extraordinario y no menos raro batería Marco Minnemann ha dado a Architecture of the absurd un empuje extra. Su participación en el proyecto ha llevado a la banda a dar un paso mas allá en sus pretensiones musicales, reforzandolas con una contundencia rítmica solo comparable a la potencia del despegue de una nave interestelar.

El ultimo eslabón de este complejo entramado ha sido Damian Erskine, bajista virtuoso que ha comprendido perfectamente las mentes calenturientas y defectuosas de L. Matellan y Razl sirviendo de perfecto pegamento entre los incontrolables pulsos de Marco y los incongruentes métodos musicales de Architecture of the absurd.

Architecture of the absurd es el resultado final de algo que comenzó de una manera totalmente aleatoria e indefinida. La mayoría de los temas han tomado su forma definitiva casi en el momento final antes de entrar al estudio de grabación. Tanto Lorenzo como Razl iban aportando nuevas ideas y fragmentos que se almacenaban en una especie de archivo imaginario sin tener en cuenta el numero de temas que formarían parte del disco. Llego un momento en el que el numero de fragmentos musicales era tal que en Architecture of the absurd empezaron a sentir algo de agobio por no poder plasmar todas esas ideas. Así que habiendo puesto una fecha concreta para iniciar la grabación se decidió cerrar el  flujo incesante de ideas y poner en orden todo lo que se había creado hasta el momento. La dificultad para dar sentido y cabida a todas ellas, les llevo a pensar en la idea de algo abstracto, con sentido pero a la vez sin el, y fue bajo esa perspectiva bajo la que se fueron integrando todos los fragmentos en forma de temas..."

Architecture of the absurd - Beluga (2014)





Tracks:

1. Photosynthesis 5:19
2. Paris Ragtime 6:08
3. Trying to Be a Court Clown 5:25
4. Under a Black Cloud7:10
5. Thylacine 6:18
6. Monologue 6:43
7. Sunny View (For Douche-Bags) 5:24

verruga

Altare thotemico - Sogno errando (2013)


"The Italian band ALTARE THOTEMICO was formed in 2008, and on their debut album released the following year, they received acclaim for their take on 70's style Italian progressive rock and jazz rock. "Sogno Errando" is their second full length album, and was released through the Italian label MaRaCash in 2013. The current incarnation of Altare Thotemico is a vastly different one from the one which recorded their first album, and if descriptions are correct about them, their style has changed substantially too. Jazz is at the very core of the proceedings on this occasion, and a progressive oriented and elaborate variety of it too. 

Opening track D'Amore e Altri Tormenti is perhaps the sole exception, a more traditional but very well made affair, but from then and onwards we're taken on a glorious trip through multiple themed constructions that incorporate and include jazz-fusion and RIO-oriented escapades, with a few free-form inserts to boot. With expressionate, dramatic lead vocals, fireworks drumming, groove-determined bass, haunting and soaring violin escapades, elegant piano motifs and a saxophonist equally adept at calm and melancholic moods as with wild and intense ones. One gem follows the other here, with three epic length compositions that clock in at 40 minutes total playtime the brightest shining ones. A CD well worth checking out by fans of jazz fusion, and a production I'll pull forth when I encounter someone claiming that they are unable to enjoy jazz as well, as this album should convince a fair few about such notions being erroneous. "Sogno Errando" comes with my highest recommendations, in particular to the audience previously outlined..."

Altare thotemico - Sogno errando (2013)





Tracks:

1. Le Correnti Sotteranee
2. D'amore e d'altri Tormenti
3. Broken Heart
4. Petali Sognanti
5. Sogno Errando
6. Porpora
7. Neuro Pshico Killer

Line-up:

Gianni Venturi: Vocal
Emiliano Vernizzi: Sax
Gabriele Toscani: Violin
Leonardo Caligiuri: Piano
Valerio Venturi: Bass
Max Govoni: Drums

erra

ByZero - Zencore (2011)



"Labels – what would we do without them? Probably enjoy the music more and
 not get sidetracked into pointless and elitist debates about what does or
 does not constitute “bison-prog” or somesuch. On the other hand there are
 times when labels are useful, and as Amplifier’s Neil Mahony says:

    “I do….find some musical labels helpful – if something is described as
    Brainfuck Noisecore then I am usually pretty sure what to expect.”

 With that in mind, may I describe the scary and sometimes surreal noise
 made by ByZero as avant-punk-jazz-metal-rio-prog? No? well in that case I
 don’t know where to start! Seriously though, this is one helluva CD and if
 you like your music challenging, unpredictable, HEAVY, and
 trance-inducing, then this muvva is for you

 Hailing from Moscow, ByZero have been going since 2009 and their core
 line-up consists of drums/bass/guitar/synths. On most pieces on this album
 they are joined by a saxophone or two, three or even four, whether or not
 all at once who knows, it’s hard to tell. There are fourteen pieces
 (calling them “songs” would be well wide of the mark) on Zencore, their
 debut album, ranging from forty five seconds to nine minutes in length. I
 can only describe their influences from my own experience as I know little
 of the Russian avant-jazz scene. In this stew of fantastic noise I can
 hear Faust (quite a lot actually), King Crimson (imagine the heaviest
 thing on Red then multiply until the calculator breaks – that’s the
 opening track PM), Don Ellis, Moondog (not in sound, more in feel),
 Acoustic Ladyland (speeding, with stacks of Marshalls and guitars),
 Anekdoten at their noisiest, Suicide, Fuck Buttons, Lol Coxhill, Acid
 Mothers Temple….I could go on. What this actually is is unique, something
 one rarely comes across these days.

 The bass guitar is often used as a lead instrument, but still thumping out
 the rhythm with the drummer, who somehow manages to hold it all together,
 while the guitar and synths swarm around like angry bees, often in the
 company of one or more saxes. Lunnyi Beg Poreirya Ivanova includes an
 almost and atypically lovely guitar break that sounds like agitated
 raindrops falling from a roof, and following track AM goes all space-rock,
 before the swarm descends again. There are many brief interludes from the
 brutality throughout which gives the otherwise relentless nature of the
 album some much needed light and shade.

 Noise of Zero Pt1 sees Faustian space spiders scratching at the hull while
 inside the saxes squawk and wail, arhythmic and ambient, but not in a
 chilled way. Twist Ling AM with Nick Rubanov takes the template of the
 version from earlier on and features added sax madness over an
 Anekdoten-like bass riff and syncopation. Storming stuff!

 After an hour we arrive at fourteenth and last track Vibration of Zero, or
 the Four Impro (sic), and it feels like we have just gone through twelve
 rounds with the Klitschko brothers. We are battered, bruised, but also
 exhilarated, knowing we will return for more. Probably the most
 frightening and compelling record I’ve listened to in a long time, and all
 the better for it. Do not listen to this if you have a hangover!"

Así las cosas, muchachos...

ByZero - Zencore (2011)



 Tracks:

    1. PM 2:35
    2. Twist Ling AM 3:17
    3. Lunnyi Beg Poreirya Ivanova 4:49
    4. AM 3:32
    5. Volosatyi Studen 5:20
    6. Noise Of Zero Pt1 5:37
    7. Minimal 0:45
    8. Confusion 4:00
    9. Etu Pesniu Pel Gagagarin V Kosmose 4:31
   10. No One Light 8:09
   11. Noise Of Zero Pt2 9:34
   12. Twist Ling AM With Nick Rubanov 3:35
   13. Minimal Remix 5:21
   14. Vibration Of Zero, Or The Four Impro 6:04 

 Line up:

 - Anton Kolosov - Bass Guitar
 - Alexey Bobrovsky - Drums
 - Fyodor Fokin - Guitar
 - Ilya Belorukov - Saxophone
 - Anton Ponamorev - Saxophone
 - Ilya Simakov - Saxophone
 - Nikolai Rubanov - Saxophone
 - Katya Rekk - Synthesizer

zero

The Murder Of Rosa Luxemburg ‎– Everyone's In Love And Flowers Pick Themselves (2003)


Esta placa es un collector´s item del Math Rock. Bastante desconocida para tener un sonido tan punchero y poderoso. Toda la música rebosa de verticalidad y se posa en ángulos peligrosamente obtusos a la hora de pegarle al instrumento. Único álbum de esta otrora promesa del Rock de Pitágoras, pero también del Hardcore Experimental. A must have!

The Murder Of Rosa Luxemburg ‎– Everyone's In Love And Flowers Pick Themselves (2003)





Tracks:

1 Building [A House For Flowers And Lovers] 1:56
2 The Beard Is Immortal 2:42
3 Infernal Music 4:12
4 Jack And Oscar Have A Fight 6:33
5 Slap The Cubo-Futurist 3:17
6 Time And Death Invading The Arcadian Scene 3:32
7 Ex Post Facto 3:26
8 Venezuela Is Realised 3:59

Line-Up:

Andrew Jackson
Joel Armstrong 
Shaun Hencher
Simon Lucas 
Thomas Bush

kill

Closure in moscow - Pink lemonade (2014)


Australianos que reciéntemente han ganado notoriedad debido a su cada vez mayor parecido sonoro con los desaparecidos en acción The Mars Volta. Si bien esto es descarado, he de reconocer que hay otros sabores distinguibles en su trabajo, como Cardiacs, Bubblemath, The Dear Hunter.

En todo caso se los dejo aqui para que sean uds quienes decidan si valen la etiqueta de "next big thing" que ya les colgaron en el rock alternativo.

Closure in moscow - Pink lemonade (2014)


Tracks:

1"The Fool" – 1:33
2"Pink Lemonade" – 8:14
3"Neoprene Byzantine" – 3:54
4"Seeds of Gold" – 3:41
5"That Brahmatron Song" – 9:30
6"Dinosaur Boss Battle" – 6:20
7"Mauerbauertraurigkeit" – 7:25
8"The Church of the Technochrist" – 6:46
9"Beckon Fire" – 4:02
10"Happy Days" – 5:38
11"ピンク レモネード" – 3:29

Line-Up:

Mansur Zennelli
Christopher deCinque
Michael Barrett
Salvatore Aidone
Duncan Millar

mars

Barbacana - Barbacana (2012)


"Barbacana is an Anglo-French quartet that brings together some of the keenest young musical intelligences from either side of the channel: British firebrands James Alsopp and Kit Downes and rising French artists Sylvain Darrifourcq and Adrien Dennefeld. Since 2009, they’ve been stunning live audiences with their barbed, angular riffs and hive-mind extemporisations.

The self-titled debut album, Barbacana, is a bristling summation of all their group discoveries to date, hinting at both the long history of avant-garde jazz shared by artistic communities in Paris and London, and the love French audiences and musicians have long held for classic British Prog and jazz-rock groups such as Soft Machine, Matching Mole and Hatfield and the North.

‘Animation’ starts with a Beefheartian tangle of robotic, interlocking guitar and organ jabs, squirling sax, and piston-popping, fractured drum rhythms, before giving way to a mysterious, dreamy coda. ‘Steam; sets off into a murky investigation of bass clarinet and low organ rumbles, smeared with Bill Frissel-like guitar sighs, until diving into a prancing, organ-led riff reminiscent of Canterbury-scene Prog at its most gripping. ‘Migration-Big Big Shop’ rushes out of the gate with gnarled, barbed-wire guitar, and twitchy, caffeinated drums only to tumble headlong into turbulent free-fall with wide, endof-the-pier organ swells opening out like a queasy parachute.

Imagine strapping yourself into a fairground ride that keeps changing direction, switching from rollercoaster to ghost train and back again with capricious wit and skill.

With Barbacana, the only certainty is that nothing is certain..."

Barbacana - Barbacana (2012)



Tracks:

1.Animation 06:57
2.Steam 05:09
3.Adobes 06:00
4.Barbacana 01:49
5.For No Raisin 07:28
6.Migration-Big Big Shop 10:05
7.Outro 05:28

Line-Up:

James Allsopp: tenor saxophone, bass clarinet; 
Sylvain Darrifourcq: drums, objects,toys; 
Adrien Dennefeld: guitar, cello; 
Kit Downes: organ, keyboard, prepared piano.

barba

sábado, 25 de octubre de 2014

Ithak- Idem (2012)



"Science Fiction Music, Ethno-Psyche-Punk, dodecaphonic rock?

Abdul Vector Von Hassid (P*BUH) ‘s crazy disciples share a kaleidosonic and psychedelic vision of music, mixing psychopunk, hip hop, jazz, oriental, electro and contemporary music in a deconstructivist blend from which emerges a new, original and ever surprising sound.

ITHAK, Founded in 2005 by Seb El Zin, is a band dedicated to going beyond the limits of creativity and expression.
Truly polymorphic and multicultural artists, ITHAK’s members are constantly creating new sounds, new visual experiences and pulling down frontiers and fighting stereotypes.

Just imagine a mix of The Young Gods, Secret Chiefs 3, Talking Heads, Arnold Schoënberg and James Chance illustrating a Mati Klarwein’s painting in a weird poppy, psychedelic and punchy rocky way and it will give you a vague idea of what you can expect from them..."

"I really love your crazy sounds" John Zorn




Ithak- Idem (2012)

Tracks:

1.Para tus sentidos auditivos (intro) 00:18
2.Serial Iguana 07:50
3.Utrecht Interlude 3 01:14
4.Stereo Love 03:55
5.Vitaly 02:44
6.Horizons Verticaux 04:53
7.Utrecht Interlude 4 01:11
8.Psalm 03:24
9.Je Fly 05:14
10.Aquatisch Phantasie 01:05
11.Sentier Des Lunes 03:22
12.Triangle Cannibale 03:06
13.Im Wunderschönen Monat Mai 03:30

Line-Up:

Seb El Zin, Composer, singer, guitarist, author and founder of ITHAK.
François Sabin, ITHAK’s saxophonist, and occasional pianist and guitarist.
Stephane Gasquet, Keyboards and samples.
Thomas Ballarini, Drums and percussion.
Charlie Dalin, percussions

ithak

Öz ürügülü - Forgotten Archives (2013)



"This is a crazy new band, Öz Ürügülü, and they're from Switzerland!

Their debut CD Forgotten Archives is an odd-meter / proggy mixture of Steve Vai, Secrets Chiefs 3 and Mr. Bungle -- exotic scales played on sitar, horn section, theremin, keyboards, and heavy rock band. It's hard to tell how many members are really in the band and what they're playing at any moment. Whoever they are, they're all highly-skilled and having a lot of fun.

Even the wild circuit-bending and techno dance beats are catchy and cool. It's not easy to get me to bob my head up and down, but these guys somehow did it.

They've got this avant garde track called Concerto For Group And Expresso Machine Movement III, in which they have scored jazz rock music to go with all the sounds of someone making an expresso. AND they've included the manuscript / score inside the CD booklet..."

Y si no le creen al chavo, el sampler no miente:



Öz ürügülü - Forgotten Archives (2013)

Tracks:

1. Cartoon Holocaust
2. When I Was 17
3. Samørgen
4. Collateral Tanzbein
5. Concerto For Group And Espresso Machine Movement III
6. Secret Cheese
7. Pain Of Centuries (All At Once)
8. Zbengi Yihrbakki

Line-Up:

ANGELO GWERDER: GUITAR, SITAR, SAZ, COMPUTERS
PHILIPPE HUBLER: GUITAR, SAZ, COMPUTERS, EGG
BENY SÜESS: DRUMS
DAMIAN GWERDER: BASS
LINO BLÖCHLINGER: SAX, CH-FON

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS:
HANS-PETER PFAMMATTER: SYNTH SOLO ON “CONCERTO FOR GROUP AND ESPRESSO MACHINE MOVEMENT III”
ADRIANA BRAVO: VOCALS ON “WHEN I WAS 17”

öz

Munir Hossn - IndiGenaJazz (2013)



El video adjunto es CONTUNDENTE. No necesitan ver la sangre...

"Between rhythms and lyrics is how we find a way to express this beautiful brazilian heritage. 
Somewhere in hidden regions in Brazil, you can still find, if you're lucky, 
Indians who've managed to preserve their culture and habits, the way they dress, dance, play... 
In other regions like Salvador of Bahia, 
the African heritage is proudly exposed by the ones who have inherited it from their ancestors brought in during colonization. 
This combination gave birth to one of the richest part of our culture. 
In this rich and diverse country was born INdiGenaJazz, Indigena for its origins and Jazz for its path. 
The artist's experiences and journeys are told through music, from Cuba to New York..."

En el archivo coloqué 2 versiones de "Meu Guarani" con arreglos diferentes que no tienen desperdicio.

MALDITO GENIO!! MUST HAVE!! 





Munir Hossn - IndiGenaJazz (2013)

Tracks:

1.Meu Gaurani 05:12
2.Yahlee 05:12
3.Cabra Tenorio 07:10
4.INdiGenaJazz 04:55
5.Diaba Sambou 06:44
6.Minha Clave Minha Cara 06:13
7.Tudo Bala 03:49

Line-Up:

Munir Hossn - bass, guit,perc, vocal. 
Adriano Dd - perc. 
Tiphanie Constantin - vocals. 

meu

Kouma - Brazilian Blow Out (2014)


Una raya más al furioso tigre que sigue devorando orejas desprevenidas bajo el inocente pseudónimo de "escena musical independiente francesa". Lo que allí está sucediendo debería ser ya tema de seguridad nacional y obligada cuarentena para tantos pobres jóvenes que, como los bien nacidos Kouma, hoy ya no saben más que diseñar macabras danzas sincopadas armados con una suerte de Math-Noise-Jazz-Slung Core en formato de trío que no deja títere con me soban y definitivamente hay que poseerles en nuestras colecciones.

Si no baila hasta el más viejo de sus casas con este video, es porque seguramente ya está muerto!

POWER!!




Kouma - Brazilian Blow Out (2014)

Tracks:


1 E.V.T.E.V. 00:04:01  

2 Nevada Breakdown 00:06:40 
3 Fundoshi 00:03:02  
4 Pound Zero 00:04:55  
5 Brazilian Blowout 00:05:02  
6 Casse Brique 00:03:20  
7 Frichti 00:04:15

Line-Up:


ROMAIN Dugelay saxo barítono 

DAMIEN CLUZEL guitarra
LEO DUMONT drums

out


Archimusic - 13 arpents de malheur [2001]



El saxofonista y compositor Jean Remy Guedon es quien desde 1993 mueve los hilos de esta auténtica Torre de Babel sónica llamada Archimusic (Archi, pa los cuates) y en la cual 8 virtuosos multinacionales comparten, además de pedos y deudas, el misterio gozoso por el Jazz, la Clásica Contemporánea y la música africana.
El mismo Jean reconoce que debido al intrincado manejo pluricultural que la banda conlleva, le ha sido imposible implementar clase alguna de cerco sanitario cuando se ven expuestos a nuevas formas sonoras y otros cantares que les han originado serias aproximaciones al Rock en varias pestañas, transgrediendo dolorosamente la linea de lo políticamente correcto y entregando en estos ya más de 20 años varios trabajos dignos de nuestros carísimos paladares otrora hendidos.

Acá 2 caras de su obra: RIO/Contemporánea en el álbum y en el video una muestra de lo que podría ser el Hip-Hop más elevado que se pueda elucubrar...

EXCELSOS!!

Archimusic - 13 arpents de malheur [2001]




Tracks:

1.- 13 Arpents de malheur - n°1 
2.- 13 Arpents de malheur - n°2 
3.- 13 Arpents de malheur - n°3 
4.- 13 Arpents de malheur - n°4
5.- 13 Arpents de malheur - n°5 
6.- 13 Arpents de malheur - n°6 
7.- En pierre d`air 
8.- Format-âge 
9.- Les yeux de cire 
10.- Parméric - n°1 
11.- Parméric - n°2 
12.- Parméric - n°3 | 

Line-Up:

Jean-Rémy Guédon : saxophone, direction et composition
Jean-Pierre Arnaud : hautbois, cor anglais
Michel Arrignon : clarinette
Mathieu Michel : trompette
Carol Mundinger : clarinette basse
David Pouradier Duteil : batterie
Yves Rousseau : contrebasse
Bruno Rousselet : basson
Laurence Masliah : voix

CLICK!!