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Mellow Motif
The band’s most recent release, “Sabuy Dee”(2010), is a hard swinging album that consists of re-interpretations of tunes from the 30s to 50s, original compositions, and jazz renditions of Thai favorites such as “I Feel Sabuy Dee” and “Tur Moon Rob Chun, Chun Moon Rob Tur”.
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Motif: My Head is Listening
by Glenn Astarita
This Scandinavian band lives by its moniker. Indeed, most of these works are framed on a sequence of primary motifs, mini- motifs and sub-motifs, interspersed with knockdown, drag-out cadenzas that span free jazz, semi-free jazz, modern jazz and so on. At times this collective seems to thrive on nervous energy amid a surfeit of highs, lows and briskly executed reverse- engineering parameters. They go from one extreme to another, whether it's dainty horns and piano etudes to moments of quietude ...
read more"Her sweet and clear voice brings the jazzy numbers to a new level... The woman has such depth, substance and panache that it's hard to believe that she is only 25 years old." - VirtualMalaysia.com (May 2010)
"Very delightful - full of new and refreshing ideas by the new generation of Thai jazz musicians." - Anant Luepradit, music journalist/news editor/music critic/program director (February 26, 2009)
"Simply world-class!" - Music Express Magazine, Bangkok, Thailand (April 2009)