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It´s official: GuitCussion is awesome: new reviews of CD Blue Congo
I´ve posted some clips from the CD here. Both reviews came Monday and are from Paul Acquaro´s Freejazz-blog in New York, and from Craig Premo´s Improvised-blog in Austin, Texas.
What says you? Can reviews be better?
Excerpt from Paul Acquaros review:
"Indeed, some of the tunes of GuitCussion have that certain soaring sound associated with Terje Rypdal or even Jan Garbarek, and there are moments during the album where the music feels like an avalanche of sound. Brash and wide swaths of sound pour from the guitars and the drums push and push. However, unlike groups where the power excess of the electric guitar is the focus, GuitCussion works with a big ensemble sound in which precise melodic lines and ambient textures are given weight. The guitarists use the sonic distinction of their instruments - Thorpenberg sticks to the classics like the Les Paul-SG and Backman utilizes a double neck guitar that controls some serious digital equipment - to their advantage on the epic tone poems of Blue Congo."
The whole review here: http://www.freejazzblog.org/2015/02/guitcussion-blue-congo-brakophonic-2014.html
Excerpt from Craig Premo´s review:
"....the premise of the Swedish group GuitCussion is intriguing. Consisting of two guitarists and two drummers, the group wants to create a powerful form of free music in a non-idiomatic fashion. Whether GuitCussion fulfills the non-idiomatic part of the equation is open to debate, but ultimately beside the point, because they create some interesting atmospheres and textures on Blue Congo. Parts of it sound like what would have happened if Larry Coryell had played with Tony Oxley back in ’75 instead of Alphonse Mouzon, and the band can bring the heat when it wants to, as on the track Broken View."
The whole review here: http://improvisedblog.blogspot.se/2015/02/guitcussion-blue-congo.html
I´ve posted some clips from the CD here. Both reviews came Monday and are from Paul Acquaro´s Freejazz-blog in New York, and from Craig Premo´s Improvised-blog in Austin, Texas.
What says you? Can reviews be better?
Excerpt from Paul Acquaros review:
"Indeed, some of the tunes of GuitCussion have that certain soaring sound associated with Terje Rypdal or even Jan Garbarek, and there are moments during the album where the music feels like an avalanche of sound. Brash and wide swaths of sound pour from the guitars and the drums push and push. However, unlike groups where the power excess of the electric guitar is the focus, GuitCussion works with a big ensemble sound in which precise melodic lines and ambient textures are given weight. The guitarists use the sonic distinction of their instruments - Thorpenberg sticks to the classics like the Les Paul-SG and Backman utilizes a double neck guitar that controls some serious digital equipment - to their advantage on the epic tone poems of Blue Congo."
The whole review here: http://www.freejazzblog.org/2015/02/guitcussion-blue-congo-brakophonic-2014.html
Excerpt from Craig Premo´s review:
"....the premise of the Swedish group GuitCussion is intriguing. Consisting of two guitarists and two drummers, the group wants to create a powerful form of free music in a non-idiomatic fashion. Whether GuitCussion fulfills the non-idiomatic part of the equation is open to debate, but ultimately beside the point, because they create some interesting atmospheres and textures on Blue Congo. Parts of it sound like what would have happened if Larry Coryell had played with Tony Oxley back in ’75 instead of Alphonse Mouzon, and the band can bring the heat when it wants to, as on the track Broken View."
The whole review here: http://improvisedblog.blogspot.se/2015/02/guitcussion-blue-congo.html
