Review
Tom Djll MEDIA: CD. CONTACT: Search for Tom Djll at 1000's of music sellers worldwide! | I�m
sitting here at the Mac struggling to find words to describe how
overwhelmingly impressed i am with this work. The basic idea is this:
take a modern jazz trumpet and feed it through a mind-boggling array of
signal processing, sampling, back-looping and then more processing
until you get a loping, drunken juggernaut-gargoyle unpredictably
prancing like the proverbial china shop bull. Then, throw this insane
mutant into an intensive, free-form improvisational environment with
some of the most accomplished players available and what you end up
with is so fresh, and yet so utterly sophisticated, as to almost defy
description. Picture a three-way cutting contest between Beefheart,
Varese and Yoko Ono; now picture it with the musicians licking venomous
toads before playing; now picture it with you chewing jimson weed while
you listen. Get the picture? Surreal, shimmering, trans-textural,
amazing state of the art venusian swampstuff boogie. Get this NOW!!!
(Bryan, i do get to keep the disc, right?) Reviewed by Bob Hawks 4/13/94. OTHER COMMENTS |
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