LEAP SECOND NEUTRAL RUNE 210 |
Great
second release from this high-energy Japanese instrumental ensemble of
soprano and tenor sax, keyboards (mostly electric piano and organ),
bass and drums, with guests on guitar and percussion. Their 2003 debut
blew the minds of those who were lucky enough to hear it, and this
confident & powerful release will convert the rest! This features
combined monster grooves and head-crunching heaviness. You wll hear
traces of fusion bands like mid-period Soft Machine/Canterbury fusion,
early Passport, Nucleus, Mushroom, The Mothers Of Invention, all
filtered through Japanese over-driven rock ala Happy Family or Tatsuya
Yoshida's Koenjihyakkei or Keorekyojinn; they tear into these jazz/rock
grooves with a great ferocity, which makes complete sense when you
learn that the drummer/leader was the original drummer for Melt Banana,
and was on their first two album.
"The main thing that sets these guys apart is the intense and aggressive energy level...like a runaway train approaching that sharp curve, you just know it's going to go over the edge, but somehow it stays on track" - Expose "...a perfect marriage of 70's Canterbury and burning jazz-fusion, with complex time signatures, ripping keyboards and squonkin' sax lines... reeks of promise and delivers on many fronts" - Sea of Tranquility
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