Good album but I think I’ll save my $1354.99 for more reasonable use. [emoji23]Originally Posted by Sputnik
I bought one on Amazon for about $30 after sampling it here. The only copy still available there is going for $1,354.99, LOL!
Bill
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Repetition in Magma's music appears as mere dynamic means to unified ends, and is always fleshed out with detailed additions - their formula was never "repetitive" as such or in the sense that I hear much other 70s progressive rock, where repetition served duration and apparently little in terms of integral compositional intent.
As for this thing you've posted, I thought it was solid enough. Good growl too.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
crazy how music is such a personal thing. 'One man's treasure'... and all that
the Shimakawa album is very fresh sounding to me (aside from ol' Cookie on the last track) with no immediate "oh he's just taking thisandthat to another level". I dont hear Magma and the Hamasyan, while very good, is way more in the Jazz realm than the Shimakawa and the Meinl Cymbals - GEM project is WAY too strict with every note in its place for me. Other comparisons made in this thread are not exactly accurate either.
The Shimakawa album hits all the right spots for me, unlike any of the artists listed in this thread that are supposedly similar
and that's how music works and should work...
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Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
Let's hope not. Because it is *all* about taste.
This Hamasyan record is a killer. He's remarkable, as he does everything from Armenian folk music as the source for some of his music, to atmospherics with Jan Bang and Eivind Aarset on one of his ECM recordings (the other is totally different). And then there's this...another great record. I saw him as Artist in Residence at the Montreal Jazz Fest a few years back and he did some music along this line, along with other stuff that was more avant-leaning.
Definitely an artist worth keeping your eye on, as you may not like a particular new release...but you might find yourself totally LOVING the next one!
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Mmhhh!!!... I'm not up to everything he did so far, but I do have Red Hail, Shadow and Mockroot, which seem to be his trilogy (or serie of zeuhlish 1-2-3 punches in the jaw) with Wood and Minae (respectively drums and bass)
I didn't like A Fable (mostlu solo piano, if memory serves), and TBH, I've stopped paying attention after his two ECM albums.
In the middle of that trilogy, he had done an excellent collab in another fave world jazz album of mine ABU NAWAS RHAPSODY from Dhafer YOUSSEF (Tunisia, but affiliated to the French jazz scene like Tigran and Maalouf and Naissam Jalal)
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
I own Red Hail and Mockroot and love them both.
Red Hail is mostly electric fusion, Mockroot is acoustic piano trio.
I can't hear any zeuhl in any of them ?
Liked it a lot! Harmonically active music makes me happy!
I also heard and liked that Tigran album (a year ago, actually) and like others here, couldn't find it anywhere.
Thanks very much for this post, Nobuhisa-san. I was completely unfamiliar with Antonio Loureiro's music and have really been enjoying his entire catalog. (Most of it does not fall so squarely in the context of this thread from a stylistic perspective, by the way, which I mention for the others here.) I'll also have to check out the Caipi Band album you mentioned as well when I get a chance.
Cheers,
Alan
P.S. I had already been enjoying the Kenta Shimakawa album originally posted here and am also a very big Tigran Hamasyan fan (who is also looking for a legitimate way to purchase his Red Hail album at a reasonable price).
I just bought the Kenta Shimakawa album on Bandcamp. Overall it's a lovely record; I don't like the growl/scream vocals on the last song, but fortunately that's only like 2 minutes. I can easily endure or skip past it.
The rest of the disc is top-notch. Thanks for the heads up, MT.
I got both the Kenta Shimakawa and Tigran Hamasyan's Red Hail last week when I was away. Spun them each twice since I got back. They're both good, but I don't think I've really penetrated either of them yet. I had to make a CDR of Glimpse because they rather stupidly repeated the last track, the second version being a slightly longer bonus version. But it's not very pleasant to have to listen to the same track twice in a row. Oh well, problem solved with the CDR.
Red Hail is a bit more jazz-oriented than I'd anticipated. I love the rock bits, but I'm honestly just not that into jazz and it sort of feels like two albums that were squashed together without much unity. The playing is great, there's just a lot of it that doesn't really float my boat. But it's too early to give up, maybe it will grow on me, and as I say, there are many parts I like as well. Fortunately, if I don't like it, I can probably sell it for a nearly $1,500.00 profit!
Bill
If you need to find a home for it, well, I'm just saying ......
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LOL! Haven't given up yet, but if I sell, I'll contact you.If you need to find a home for it, well, I'm just saying ......
Bill
Critical Quartet Experience from France
Interesting, not bad. Not really like the Shimakawa or Hamasyan albums, but cool stuff. I might have bought their CD, but they have it on Bandcamp for 12 Euros (not including postage, I presume) and it's less than 30 minutes long. Even the freaking download is 10 Euros. I'm sorry, but that is just not a reasonable price for something EP length in my book; they music would have to absolutely blow me away, and this doesn't.
Bill
This just showed up on YouTube: It's Kenta Shimakawa live at the New School, with a band of his fellow students - probably his senior recital. Not complete tunes, just small excerpts, but it's cool to hear and see this stuff actually being performed.
Nice! I recognize a lot of that from the album, which I'm spinning pretty regularly. Those are almost surely the players that helped him with the album. Very cool!
Bill
Giorgi Mikadze - Georgian Microjamz (Promo)
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