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Jazz Fusion
About Us:
With this new personal project, the
Danish musician and
multi-instrumentist Carsten Sindvald
signs a very eclectic album, which
I'll place in the jazz fusion bag for
lack of a better tag. But please
understand fusion in its real
ethymologic definition, instead of the
more common and depraved one often
associated to easy listening, muzak
and other negatively charged words.
We're dealing here with several
fusions; the cultural one bringing
together Danish musicians,
percussionist Robin Mattuck of
Danish-American origin and Irish
guitarist, sound engineer Dave Henessy
can be paired with the fusion of
musical styles; like painters and
generally starting from fixed - but
still much open - written structures,
Sinvald and his band will discretely
throughout the album bring forth
various colours picked from the many
facettes of jazz history: the
contagious afro-drumming of Anders
Mogensen on the starter track, on top
of which is added a nice bodhran part;
the hard bop inflected "What's Up,
Crocks!" with its brassy riffs and
unisson sax/trumpet lines + a very
cool vibraphone (Kai Stensgaard)
bringing us back to the Blue Note
years, though the piece strangely
enough starts with a funny simili
konakol mounted on a tightly
syncopated bass rhythmic figure; the
beach like and joyful "Sunboat Jive"
with its ostinato drum beat, funky
piano riffs, spicy wah-wah guitar, not
far from the type of jazz played by
the Pat Metheny Group; the Santana
coloured "Hello Mr. Mummy!" (both
guitar, organ parts and the Latin
percussions deployed); the Arabian
keyboard soloing in "Enigmatic
Caravan"; the post bop contemporary
"Abu Simbel" with again saxophone and
vibraphone as main engine, but with an
extra cylinder provided by Henrik Kunz
on electric bass, bringing us on a
quirky road filled of rhythmic laces
that require a good driving technique;
"The Sphinx" where the ghosts of
Weather Report seem to appear but are
pushed away by an interesting choral
section; the title track, definitely
anchored in early Chick Corea / Return
to Forever (the album, not the band!),
with a renewed appearance of vocal
arrangements and so on! Eclectism and
integration are the key words and no
one is trying to steal the focus,
music first! The longer tracks are
furthermore interspersed with short
solo piano interludes played by
Carsten, equally marked by a classical
or jazz inspiration, like in Carsten's
life; working as a church organist,
teaching the saxophone or
enthusiastically explaining you the
merits of Ellington the orchestral
arranger, he's always at work with a
deep engagement and this album is no
exception! - Musicbymail
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