Jazz Day 2012 pt. 1

 

Friday, April 13, 2012 is Jazz Day!

"...As you know, Jazz, America's gift to the world, is a powerful cultural force and a source of national pride which led the U.S. Congress to pass HR 57, declaring Jazz a national treasure..."

My playlist for the day:

Craig Taborn - Junk Magic
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
Charles Mingus - Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
Branford Marsalis - Crazy People Music

The Machinist

From the Machinist:

"New vinyl (also available in digital form), is a split-single. Already familiar to you the Chicago experimental electronic project FluiD and a new hearing for the group John 3:16. Consisting of grim, instrumental music, which has elements of dark ambient, psychedelic, dubstep, classical avant-garde, early industrial , hip-hop, etc. The assembly and stylistic concept of the disc material does not interfere with 'The Pursuit Of Salvation' being moderately tuneful and enigmatic. I was in this case attracted the most to the cold and desolate song from the telling title "Plague", which sounds of a dull body combined with viscous, creeping post-industrial hip-hop beats, as well as the number 'God Is Light' and precise rhythmic thing 'Forewarning', frightened human whispers, sighs strange, some kind of mystery and thriller-wave-like motions in the air.

In general it may be noted that the FluiD and his colleague make good music. Only this time, too small a portion thereof. Do not have time to really dive into the single material, as it ends."

[6 points]

http://www.machinistmusic.net/reviews/fluidep2012.html



 

The Burning of Icarus and the March Towards Concord

 
French magazine, Obskure posted a review of 'FluiD / John 3:16 - The Pursuit of Salvation' (ALRN024 / VL001).
The original review is in French, below is the English translation:


"... Alrealon Musique continues its' initiative of collaborative works between its' artists which started with the remarkable compilation 'Alrealon Musique presents: Tomorrow’s Universe' (ALRN016). This time, FluiD and John 3:16 dialogue in a split-EP which echoes the motivating experience of the digital single 'Guardian'. 

Troubling ambient lines carried by a Reznor-like piano, insistent volutes of guitar, anaemic rhythmic canvases, combine to produce an aesthetics of the fall, which thrills the listener. The wings on the cover (a Trey Crim design) evokes a blazing Icarus, who would only be saved by burning himself. The titles of the tracks invoke this same mystical symbolic system, between angels, god, light and Red Sea, the rare voices being reduced to vibrating whispers (Forewarning). When the atmosphere is getting heavier (Plague), the mix focuses on, with fewer echoes, along with the intrusion of an emancipating synth. 

John 3:16 announces with his two 6-minute-long tracks, noisy guitars that would evolve in the highest spheres of Zen. The evolution towards concord appears unquestionable..."

Many thanks to Sylvain of Obskure Magazine for publishing the review