I started to listen to this in a mood which could be described as I'll-nail-this-too-artistic-bullshit-record-down-now. And once again, my prediction was incorrect. I had been listening to the record in a car beforehand, and I'll definitely need to get a new sound system there, then! When using the headphones, the tonal atmosphere is completely amusing.
This is not an everyday -record, still. Not a piece of cake. The brilliancy of every musicians vocabulary in expressing themselves isway beyond normal. Not an average bought, so. I still would not recommend this one to be the best chill-out record, ever. It's way too challenging for that.
Once again (Like with Captain Beefheart), you can taste the rush and heavy hectic load of the modern world still, after almost four decades after. And still it is relevant. The thing that is missing, sort of, is catchable licks and easy pop-melodies. Who cares! It's a jazz-record. The fact that it is created by cut-and-paste-the-tape -techniques does not lower the value that it has.And it definitely takes more than just this one time to really get into it. But surely, I can recommend this one to anybody who likes to broaden their musical view. This and Duke Ellington's Money Jungle, Thelonious Monk's Criss Cross are in top ten of my all time jazz -favourites.
This is not an everyday -record, still. Not a piece of cake. The brilliancy of every musicians vocabulary in expressing themselves isway beyond normal. Not an average bought, so. I still would not recommend this one to be the best chill-out record, ever. It's way too challenging for that.
Once again (Like with Captain Beefheart), you can taste the rush and heavy hectic load of the modern world still, after almost four decades after. And still it is relevant. The thing that is missing, sort of, is catchable licks and easy pop-melodies. Who cares! It's a jazz-record. The fact that it is created by cut-and-paste-the-tape -techniques does not lower the value that it has.And it definitely takes more than just this one time to really get into it. But surely, I can recommend this one to anybody who likes to broaden their musical view. This and Duke Ellington's Money Jungle, Thelonious Monk's Criss Cross are in top ten of my all time jazz -favourites.
