TERJE RYPDAL + MIROSLAV VITOUS + JACK De JOHNETTE

 

It's hard to believe that this is a three person project, but jazz be like that sometimes. Drum forward, hard driving, surreal and ethereal....it's like being invited to someone else's trip, you dig? Prolific Czech bassist MIROSLAV VITOUS (from WEATHER REPORT), Norwegian guitarist TERJE RYPDAL who ECM called the "tone poet of the Stratocaster" and American drummer JACK DeJOHNETTE who has played with Miles Davis (he's the main drummer on Bitches Brew, so there's that), Alice Coltrane, Bill Evans and Sonny Rollins and.....I'm wondering why you still need more. Listen to the cymbal laden ambient masterpiece "Den Forste Sne" and the cymbal-laden "Will" and then...go back and listen to everything else here. Carefully. Don't just hear the sounds....listen to the sounds. Deeply listen please. 

 TERJE RYPDAL // MIROSLAV VITOUS // JACK De JOHNETTE
Can you imagine how many brilliant ECM records there are....? If I decided to dig in I feel like I might never come up for air.

FUNKADELIC

 

I'm not going to pretend to be an expert here....I'm just tryna shake my ass while I get ready for work. 1975's Let's Take It To The Stage is an absolute clinic - psychedelic afro-futurist boogie of the highest order. If you haven't, then please do. Your ass will thank you.

LET'S TAKE IT TO THE STAGE

TRAIN IN VAIN

That quote kinda says it all, right? To think that in 2005 there was a band in Indonesia trying to revive the 2001 Bandana Thrash period....well, there was, and I would have lost my shit if I had seen TRAIN IN VAIN in 2001. Or 2005. Or literally fucking ever. Thirteen songs in eleven minutes, blistering fastcore of the highest order. There's a BETERCORE cover, and blasting this shit made me think of the WHN? show with BETERCORE in Mannheim very (very) long time ago. If I recall correctly, we talked about peanut butter.

FULLSPEEDFASTTERROR

LUKE SWEENEY

 

BOWIE, CUDDLY TOYS, MOTT THE HOOPLE, CHILTON, T. REX, FANTASY....the blueprint has been public domain for decades. Any interested party should know how to make it happen and make it right, so why is it that acts like LUKE SWEENEY only seem to appear once in a blue moon? And why do they always seem to be lurking in the shadows? If this were a self released two song 45 released in 1974....? Well, you know. 

MISS ME? / TIE MAO TO MINED

PERDICIÓN

 

What an absolute fukkn beast. PERDICIÓN came from out of nowhere (actually they're from Tijuana) and knocked me on my ass in a Muay Thai gym a couple of weeks ago. Raw and brutal lo-fi metallic crust with a serious classic heavy metal bent. You know the sounds, and PERDICIÓN felt like an old friend the instant I heard them. 

TRANSTORNOS CTÓNICOS

CLUB FOOT ORCHESTRA

 

There was something different about CLUB FOOT ORCHESTRA. Equal parts '80s prog-ska and WORLD/INFERNO FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY, they just play so confidently weird that you might just forget that you think that you don't like whatever it is they're playing. I don't know what it is (was), and I don't even know if I like it. But I still listen. Repeatedly. 

KIDNAPPED

ZOLOA

 

Remember the early '10s when the punk underworld was buzzing with every new Silenzio Statico release and the closet metal freaks were salivating any time a new Crepusculo Negro tape dropped? And then there was ZOLOA....the were both worlds. All of the worlds. Raw OSDM and DISRUPT  and ScandiCrust and black metal destruction and MISERY all at the same time (likely on different turntables at different speeds). Tell me "Sicario" doesn't waste your ass and I'll tell you we aren't friends - simple as that. It's the mid '20s now, and I still buzz when I blast this shit. 

PLATA O PLOMO