Camisetas

Camisetas: Camisetas

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
July 12, 2007

Camisetas, the album and the band, came about during a week-long residence at the Théâtre Pole Sud in Strasbourg, France, in September 2006. The resulting disc is very much a group improvisation, drawing upon the musical resources the players bring to the enterprise.As such, your response to this record will be a function of how you feel about three musical phenomena.First, whether you like the record depends upon how you feel about this kind of improvisational ...

Camisetas w/ Jim Black: Camisetas

by Mark Corroto
July 9, 2007

Pulled from the “what the hell was that? files, the latest project from drummer Jim Black spins out of the digital information center. Jazz/rock doesn't begin to describe this music, nor does prog/rock, grunge, fusion, or fission. The American drummer teams up with a French cast to create music that patently rejects fusion for the tastier: collision.

Black--whose quirky percussion skills have been called upon in bands by Cuong Vu, Ben Monder, Satoko Fujii and Laurie Anderson-- was ...