Wednesday, September 20, 2017

NEW RELEASES: COSTAS ANDREOU – OBSERVATION POINT; VIBRATION BLACK FINGER - GUADI; ADAM RUDOPLH’S MOVING PICTURES – GLARE OF THE TIGER

COSTAS ANDREOU – OBSERVATION POINT

The new album Observation Point by Costas Andreou has just been released. The new, fourth solo album by Costas Andreou, Observation Point, features ten instrumental music songs. The album was created by musician Costas Andreou with the sounds of fretless electric bass, processed in real time with custom electronics. The album Observation Point is a live sound recording, an atmospheric music adventure through multilevel organic sounds and sensitive melodies. Track list includes:  Observation Point; The Enduring Memory; Intercepted At Dawn ; Silver Coins For Silver Eyes; On The Coastline; Come And Go; Skyscape In Infrared; Under The Motion Sensors; Wishes Are Sails and Far In The Horizon. http://www.costasandreou.com

VIBRATION BLACK FINGER - GUADI

The third release from this groundbreaking musical collective – and maybe their most compelling so far! As before, there's a fantastic melange taking place – elements of spiritual jazz, soulful funk, and lots more – but this time around, the sound is even more offbeat – darker in some corners, weirdly calming in others – very much experimenting for its own pleasure, but with results that are extremely pleasing – and hugely different than the kind of contemporary projects that filter down a world's worth of influences, but with an end result of nothing. Instead, VBF manage to sift things around in ways that are completely amazing, and spiritual too – but with a very unique approach. Maggie Nichols sings on two tracks, Ebony Rose on two more, and Nat Birchall plays some great tenor on a spiritual jazz take on "Amazing Grace" – alongside other titles that include "Get Up & Do It", "Got To Believe", "Love & Hate", and "Alive In The Five".  ~ Dusty Groove

ADAM RUDOPLH’S MOVING PICTURES – GLARE OF THE TIGER

The groove of Adam Rudolph just keeps getting deeper over the years – to a point where here, he almost sounds like he's somewhere between the scenes of 70s electric Miles Davis, and some of the later cross-cultural experiments of Bill Laswell! There's a great layering of electric and acoustic elements taking place here – a sound that almost seems to have no beginning or end at points – built up from lots of rootsy percussion from Rudolph, mixed with Fender Rhodes and hammond from Alexis Marcelo, cornet and flugelhorn from Graham Haynes, percussion from Hamid Drake, electric bass from Damon Banks, flutes and reeds from Ralph M Jones, and percussion, Rhodes, and electronics from James Hurt! The track length is nicely varied too – some long extrapolations, shorter bursts, and mid-level musical journeys – on tracks that include "Glare Of The Tiger", "Dialogics", "Ciresque", "Ecstaticized", "Wonderings", "Lehra", and "Rotations". (Limited to just 300 copies – includes download!)  ~ Dusty Groove


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