Dogs of Great Indifference
- 艺人
- Jim Black's AlasNoAxis
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- Winter & Winter
- 发行时间
- 2006年06月13日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
by Dave Lynch
Dogs of Great Indifference is the fourth Winter & Winter CD by Jim Black's extraordinary AlasNoAxis quartet, a band that sometimes seems the perfect embodiment of internal contradictions. This is a jazz group that prefers rocking over swinging and often limits improvisations to relatively minor digressions from simple melodies. Those melodies are attractive, but balanced by floods of distorted noise. Leader/composer Black is without doubt one of the most hyper-rhythmic drummers in the world today, yet even when the quartet settles into a rocking mode, rhythmic quirks, odd syncopations, and offbeat time signatures can subvert the notion of a straight-time groove. And the musicians themselves can appear to come from different sonic universes, particularly when Chris Speed's intentionally fragile and even tentative-sounding tenor saxophone is almost disturbingly threatened by guitarist Hilmar Jensson's post-grunge/noise guitar attack. OK, it would be an exaggeration to say that each and every track on Dogs is an exercise in self-negation: a listen to the very first moments of opening track "Oddfelt," as Jensson picks subtle harmonics beneath Speed's quietly lovely initial stirrings, reveals a band in subtle consonance, an impression only strengthened as Black and bassist Skuli Sverrisson enter with understated support and the piece drifts in and out of focus knitted together by Jensson's arpeggios, building and retreating as Speed holds back and then finally states a beautifully melodic theme. But while the title track eventually coalesces around Speed's thematic statement and then settles into a comfortably spacious midtempo groove with the saxophonist flitting about over the top, the path to this point wasn't quite straight-ahead, with Black laying down a groove that simultaneously stops, starts, and cruises forward unimpeded while the simple bass and guitar parts bump against each other over a 7/4 pulse. ... Read More...
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