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Zhenya Strigalev's Smiling Organizm
Zhenya Strigalev's Smiling Organizm: Robin Goodie
by Dan Bilawsky
Saxophonist Zhenya Strigalev's Smiling Organizm is an outfit that grooves, sputters, stutters, swings, skulks, and slaloms its way through the dark and funky, slick and dangerous, and wholly gripping music presented on Robin Goodie. Strigalev paints striking, rhythmically vivacious canvases here with some help from five American heavyweights--trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, drummer Eric Harland, bass guitarist Tim Lefebvre, bassist Larry Grenadier, and pianist Taylor Eigsti. It would be hard to imagine a better group of modernists to work ...
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by Phil Barnes
It's always interesting to discover how the rest of the world views your country and this, the second album by Strigalev's six piece Smiling Organizm, was apparently inspired by his time in England. So while we might reasonably expect a paean to the joys of tea, queue etiquette and appalling public transport, the mirror Strigalev holds up instead highlights “nature... humour, heroism, strong personalities, love, rebelliousness and... some stupidity." Well, I guess it could have been worse! There ...
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Zhenya Strigalev's Smiling Organizm
