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Goat's Notes: Wild Nature Executives

Read "Wild Nature Executives" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Goat's Notes è un sestetto proveniente da Mosca (in alcuni brani si allarga fino a tentetto), che pratica i sentieri della libera improvvisazione con l'approccio cui ci hanno spesso abituato le formazioni provenienti da quella scena musicale. Se quindi il free è l'ancoraggio principale all'idioma jazzistico altri ingredienti giocano un ruolo fondamentale nella fantasmagorica proposta musicale dell'ensemble. Vi troviamo richiami al folklore ed ai canti tradizionali spesso evidenziati dall'uso contemporaneo di melodica e clarinetto. Retaggi di origine ...

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Goat's Notes: Wild Nature Executives

Read "Wild Nature Executives" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Hailing from Moscow, Goat's Notes and four guest artists execute a liberating soundscape and sustain a great deal of interest, partly due to the conciseness of pieces averaging three-minutes in length. Featuring a whipped-up blend of improvisation, jazz, classical, and rock shaped into an avant-garde disposition, the artists integrate memorable melodies with dissonance, humor, and rambunctious breakdowns. It's a cyclical deconstruction effort, covering about every conceivable possibility imaginable. But it's surprisingly cohesive as they cluster a horde of mini-motifs into ...

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