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Heaven 17 - Penthouse And Pavement
From Sheffield, synth pop and funk to stick it to Thatcher. Currently being played live!
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Dodovoodoo
(Runegrammafon, 2008)
Norwegian trio unleash furious progressive-jazz debut.
Ståle Storløkken, Nikolai Hængsle and Torstein Lofthus woozy cacophony of psychedelic jazz-rock opens with a feverish instrumental that sets the tone for the next 40 minutes of pulverising sounds. The relentlessly high levels of energy - Lofthus' rapacious drums rarely stop rolling - are only matched by Storløkken 's organ/synth mastery and it's the latter's nimble-fingered abandon that fills Skink, the title track and the relatively conventional funk grooves of Misdirection with the confidence and brio that made this record one of my 2008 favourites. It's reference points all lie in the late '60s/early '70s fusion explosion - they even cover two Joe Zawinul classics- and the band's decision to use analogue studio equipment only emphasises their desire to re-capture some of that era's experimental, overdriven fury. Here's a record guaranteed to turn those grey October skies into a technicolour tapestry of avant noise.
Ross Bennett
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 06/10/2009
Further Listening
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970)
The Tony Williams Lifetime - Emergency! (Polydor, 1969)
Mahavishnu Orchestra – The Inner Mounting Flame (Columbia, 1969)
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