Rodzmatos – Untimely Music
Label: Pandafuzz
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:55:54
There is a physical pace to life, set against the metronome of society’s busier circles, that a person can spend their whole lives trying to keep up with, escaping from, or pushing against. If one were to work against this speed it becomes easy to fall out of sync with things. Feelings of alienation creep in as thunderous marches call out in the city streets and you are left behind a crumpled mess.
There is also an unseen speed, set by consumption patterns and the wonders of modern medicine, that shape the way people live and how their lives play out. It is this physiological level where we make crucial decisions about how we live in this world and how the world lives with us and it is this speed that happens without us even knowing it.
Rodzmatos provides us with hardly a crumpled mess here, rather a finely tuned set of improvisations….for those of us feeling out of sync or those of us wanting to feel out of sync anyway. To me…they feel just right.
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| 01 - As If It Were a Shard From the Shell of the Celestial Tortoise 02 - The Coming Upheaval 03 - Conversation in Alexandria 04 - Its Possible to Get Off a Train 05 - Untimely |
Sandro Marinoni - Don Baltasar
Label: Clinical Archives
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:36:46
Just an album of simple music.
Twelve songs by twelve different moods.
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| 01 - Calling home 02 - Between the yellow and blue 03 - El apartamento 04 - Desert rose 05 - Lahore 06 - Canon 07 - Morning in the Sahara 08 - Don Baltasar 09 - Prank 10 - Pico 11 - Dagon 12 - Valzerella |
Charts and Maps – Dead Horse
Label: Lost Children
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:56:24
"Charts and Maps have always been a difficult band to figure out. I was at both their first and last shows - I saw them develop from a loud, jumbled mess of good ideas wrenched together at angles to one of the most aggressively forward-thinking end electrifying live bands on the Los Angeles underground circuit. Dead Horse, much more than any previous recording, captures the sheer bombast of their live performances. It was recorded at the band's pinnacle, on the eve of their final performance at the tail end of 2009. Clashing personalities and gargantuan creative workloads pulled them in different directions. This is where the Heard of Elephants family tree comes in -- It gets a bit complicated. Khawaja (bass), Melancon (drums), and Allison (sax/vocals) currently play in Woolen. Melancon, Allison and Watford (guitar) are part of Random Patterns, and John Taylor (guitar) is one half of Semiconscious Gloria.
Their music is the convergence of a number of diverse tendencies. They're one part ballsy big band jazz, another shimmery post-rock act with walls of melodic sound, a mathy-but-not-calculator-mathy garage-prog outfit, or an ill-tempered funk band with bad intentions -- all underpinned by an almost reckless sense of imagination, deep, grooving beats and eloquent, nimble lead melodies.
The album opens with the cheekily titled 'Take Me Back To Highland Park (Or I Will Die a Gruesome Death),' inspired after a night out in Hollywood. It is loud and stompy, sax heavy and skipping almost entirely through odd-time signatures while managing to be all up in your face without jamming on the distortion pedal. The epic, sweaty 11-minute opus 'In the Town of Machine,' follows, weaving an ominous melodic narrative inspired by the film Dead Man through a number of dystopian sonic landscapes, most culminating in absolutely searing lead lines by guitarist John Taylor. I'm loathe to use the word 'incendiary' to describe guitar playing, but, I mean it; I honestly believe that the man can start fires with his fingers alone.
The album closes with the band's final song, the title track 'Dead Horse.' I would argue that it is their finest work, one of the few to include prominent vocals (though you won't find a lyric sheet attached anywhere) and is vast in concept but concise in execution. Waves of sound lull you into a sense of comfort before dropping you off, leaving your floating in a futurist pool. Abruptly a mean funk commences. It's all syncopated and raw and signature Charts and Maps before the intensity drops to a pause. Then it builds slowly into what band members have described as 'a descent into hell.' And you can see why. It is as if they knew this was their final communication with the world and they wanted to get it all out. At the crashing end, every member is playing at 10 before the beast collapses, winded and spent.
Whether this is your cup of tea or not, Charts and Maps and this album in particular is an experiment going defiantly against the grain in Los Angeles with equal dashings of aggression and aplomb." - Jasper Crane, P.H.D.
Available in FLAC!
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| 01 - Take Me Back to Highland Park 02 - In the Town of Machine 03 - Gold Roomer 04 - Now I Must Hit You 05 - Pearl Divers of the Arabian Peninsula 06 - Hypnotiq American Firework 07 - Dead Horse |
Kevan Paul - Parallel Universes
Label: Self
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:33:50
This album hopes to continue with the innovative use of electric violin in jazz and electronic ambient fusion styles. Various rhythmic layers interact with melodic violin layers. Complex harmonic overlays and effects of electronic instruments are used to enhance the violin. The Jordan 5-string electric-violin is featured throughout, along with additional acoustic violin tracks. Those who are familar with jazz violin should enjoy this collection. - Kevan Paul
Trío Antimanierista - Pichis Brew
Label: Clinical Archives
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:52:29
During March 2011, Trío Antimanierista worked in collaboration with the exceptional gutarist David Paredes. A part of this prolific collaboration are in this record with suggestive name: Pichis Brew.
Antonia Funes, Nacho Sequí and Víctor Sequí, play with restricted resources accompaning to David Paredes full-creative world, producing curious but mature instantaneous compositions. The collective virtuosity of Trío Antimanierista is intact and more expanded with the happy collaboration of this experimented improvisator gutarist.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - fdoor 02 - peligroso 03 - lonely friends 04 - fcarregols 05 - maryolla |
Trio Metrik – #01
Label: Beeah–Music
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 00:28:14
Trio Metrik is a permanent collaboration of the improvising musicians David Perlzweig, Kristoff Becker and Sebastian Arnold, based in Berlin/Germany. The trio was formed in 2009 when the three met on stage and decided to merge their different approaches of experimental electronic music, film scores and visual arts into a mostly acoustic jazz trio with piano, self-built cello and drums. Since then, their on-the-fly compositions have evolved quickly, reaching from vast ambient landscapes to mind-puzzling percussive dance tracks.
This is a completely improvised recording by Trio Metrik:
David Perlzweig – Piano
Kristoff Becker – Cello & Electronics
Sebastian Arnold – Drums & Percussion
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Mr. Moods - In Love We Trust... And We Hate
GENRE: Electronic, Jazz, Nu-Jazz, Atmospheric, Chil-Out
Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:57:50
Originally released on Dirtybird Rexx netlabel in 2007, here comes "In Love We Trust... And We Hate" with 6 bonus tracks. Melancholic, extremely atmospheric, chilled, phat and jazzy - the signature of Mr. Moods you never go wrong with!
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| 01 - Intro 02 - A Romantic Affair 03 - The Birds (feat. Violent Public Disorderaz) 04 - A Little Something 05 - The Only One (feat. Violent Public Disorderaz) 06 - Daylight 07 - Tribute To Mario Lanza 08 - Interlude 09 - The Endless Story 10 - Apologize To... 11 - For A Moment 12 - Sensuality 13 - L.O.V.E. 14 - Before You Die 15 - Flying Things |
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Jonah Dempcy - Syncretic Beliefs
GENRE: Jazz, Piano, Modern Jazz
Label: Cheshire Records
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 00:21:49
Solo jazz piano album featuring original original modern jazz compositions by Jonah Dempcy (Revolution Void and Ultracat). Track 6 "Humans in Universe" is solo classic jazz organ.
I'm a musician living in Seattle. I make electronic jazz music under the moniker Revolution Void. My music is a mix of electronic breaks and jazz improvisation, featuring solos from some of the top players in modern jazz such as Seamus Blake, Lucas Pickford and Matthew Garrison.
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Claudio Nuñez - bailando sobre arquitectura en el titanic / dancing about architecture in the titanic
GENRE: Jazz, Free Jazz, Improvisation, Electroacoustic
Label: Clinical Archives
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 01:06:41
Claudio Nuñez was born in Buenos Aires in 1959. He studied classical guitar during the 70s, composition with Hilda Dianda and obtained a choral conductor degree in 1980. Claudio lived in the USA between 1981 and 2004. He has participated in several projects in Los Angeles (Dannie Cove Big Band, Storacci Sextet, Carlos Miralles group, Bhrama Nada and the Nuñez/Tomlinson/Weiss trio), and in New York (Nuñez-Bagnato duet, the Charlie Martins quartet and several versions of the Claudio Nuñez trío, quartet or quintet with people like Sam Hendrix, John Riley, Larry Granadier, Matt Wilson, Charles Gayle, William Parker, George Fernandez, etc.), covering the space from modern jazz to freejazz and avant garde classical to indian classical music and new tango.
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Maya de Luna - Bar Stim.Art
GENRE: Jazz, Bossa, Chanson, Acoustic
Label: Jamendo
Release date: 2006
Total running time: 00:37:25
Following an unexpected encounter, Stimart Bruno and myself, have forced the plant to mature destiny for a "Jazz Zik. Today is the moment of harvest. Serve yourself! The music on this debut album is offered to you and you'll enter a world that differs from other albums! We put all our heart, our passion and confronted the two worlds. We hope the six titles will not leave you indifferent and that, to our delight!
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