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Milesdavisquintet - Shapin' With

1/10/2015

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jazz / experimental
Becoq Records
Tricollectif
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Recently, I've been trying to find my way in the strange world of jazz.  I pick up some new things once in a while, mostly dark jazz, like Bohren, Dale Cooper or, since a few days, Radare.  Yet, free jazz is something I don't understand completely.  Maybe one day I will, since I've been listening to countless of other highly experimental genres like noise and ambient.  Yet, currently there's a lot of jazz-acts that I don't listen to, some of the even get me nervous.

Milesdavisquintet has very little to do with Miles Davis, and it isn't a quintet at all.  The trio consists of Xavier Camarasa on piano and piano-percussion, Valentin Ceccaldo on cello and Sylvain Darrifourq on percussion and zither.  However, the piano rarely sounds like a piano and the cello rarely sounds like a cello.  These guys handle their instruments in a totally different way, reminding me more of acts like Zoviet France or O Yuki Conjugate than Dave Brubeck or Duke Ellington.

There's two tracks on this album.  The first one, 'Tap' is an ever evolving, hypnotic piece of avant-garde music, mostly driving on instrument percussion.  The intensity of the song continuously rises, by the end even becoming something oddly heavy.  'Rub', the second track, takes on a more contemplative approach, although it still is quite a dark, creepy track, reminding me of some experimental dark ambient acts.  Here, eerie sounds seem to come from everywhere, haunting the listener.

In all, this is a very interesting album by three adventurous musicians.  Their vision on jazz is way different than that of most people in the scene and in a way they clearly cross borders between jazz and other experimental music styles.  So no, this album does not make me nervous.  It makes me glad I started this webzine and it definitely provided something new and fresh in my collection.  


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