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Jonas Cambien: We Must Mustn't We
By" Crib" is accentuated by the leader's lower register ostinato and Andreas Wildhagen's snappy beats amid off-setting passages and André Roligheten's windswept flute voicings, converging via a sense of urgency with flickering unison choruses. Moreover, the band's discordant outbreaks insert a dagger into the processes, although they follow with a graceful march progression and Wildhagen's melodic trumpet intervals during, "Renaissance."
Indeed, concrete structural platforms, variable thematic regimens and subliminal harmonic tonalities attain a gleeful coexistence. Cambien and Roligheten intermittently intersperse hummable song-forms and lucid unison-motifs into these deceptively complex pieces that trigger a sense of excitement on a per-track basis. Moving forward, "Sister" is a swaggering power-packed joyride initiated with the saxophonist's brawny phrasings, anchored by the pianist's cyclical execution of the primary hook and escalated by the drummer's rippling fills.
This album seems like a good fit for turning the hip college crowd on to other forms of radical and worldly experimental music that offers more than 40-minutes or so of shrieks and howls steeped in anguish. From a holistic musical experience, this production is akin to a fun-filled party that ends way too soon.
Track Listing
Creationism; Swear Like a Bear; Long Long; Survivalism; Crib; Renaissance; Animalism; Copper Man; I Must Mustn't I; Unlikely Friendship; Sister, You Proved Me Right; Long Long Long.
Personnel
Jonas Cambien
pianoAndré Roligheten: soprano and tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, flute; Andreas Wildhagen: drums and percussion, trumpet (4); Jonas Cambien: piano, microtonal melodica (9). Guest: Torstein Lavik Larsen trumpet (6, 8).
Album information
Title: We Must Mustn't We | Year Released: 2018 | Record Label: Clean Feed Records
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