STARLICKER - Double Demon

Kategorie: CD-Reviews | Genre: Jazz/Jazzrock/Fusion | Heft: Jahrgang 2012, eclipsed Nr. 138 / 3-2012 | VÖ-Jahr: 2012 | Wertung: 8/10 | Label: Delmark | Autor: WK


Tortoise hadn't been heard from for a long time. But now there's something going on around the post-rock pioneers again. Their drummer John Herndon founded the trio Starlicker with trumpeter Rob Mazurek from Tortoise sister band Isotope 217 and vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz. Their gripping mixture of postrock, early electric jazz and drum'n'bass sounds like the perfect synthesis of Tortoise and Isotope. There are two amazing things about it. The music sounds highly electronic, although it has been recorded one hundred percent acoustically. But the three protagonists are also masters of retranslating digital sound experience into analog processes. Her precisely calculated piece Jazz-Avantgarde also sounds warm, familiar and organic. "Double Demon" combines deeply old-fashioned sound expectations with the challenges of a meta-jazz of the future.

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