Lunge / Strong Language
| Album: | Strong Language | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Lunge | Added: | Mar 2003 | |
| Label: | Emanem | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2003-03-10 | Pull Date: | 2003-05-12 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | May 11 | Apr 20 | Mar 16 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | May 09, 2003: | Memory Select
No Filters |
3. | Mar 14, 2003: | Memory Select
Planarchy [excerpt] |
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| 2. | Apr 18, 2003: | Memory Select
No Filters |
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Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2003-04-14
Reviewed 2003-04-14
Free improv from Britain (not the same as the band "Lunge" that gave us a couple of 7" records in the '90s).
Sound/improv quartet with an often quiet bent, led by trombone. Electronics noises are in here as well, like an underlying quilt of cluttery sounds.
Try #2 if you're looking for abstract music that isn't a loud blur. #1 gets too quiet for radio, methinks. Good overall, but I've always felt that "free improv" trombone is a bad fit, the trombone being both too loud and too slow/clunky, making it a mood-breaker too often. Which happens here quite a bit.
1- Engaging, clunky start. Kicks up a notch at -9:30. Last several minutes are quiet with lots of air-through-the-horn sounds
2*- Sparse and quiet, not bad
3- Sparse again. -9:00 to -5:00 is a nice stretch that includes some refreshingly "normal" trombone playing
4*- Fast jumble, loud
5*- More quietness, driven by some rich percussion. Gets loud at -3:30 (a nice break point) and at the end.
6*- Mournful and even melodic
Sound/improv quartet with an often quiet bent, led by trombone. Electronics noises are in here as well, like an underlying quilt of cluttery sounds.
Try #2 if you're looking for abstract music that isn't a loud blur. #1 gets too quiet for radio, methinks. Good overall, but I've always felt that "free improv" trombone is a bad fit, the trombone being both too loud and too slow/clunky, making it a mood-breaker too often. Which happens here quite a bit.
1- Engaging, clunky start. Kicks up a notch at -9:30. Last several minutes are quiet with lots of air-through-the-horn sounds
2*- Sparse and quiet, not bad
3- Sparse again. -9:00 to -5:00 is a nice stretch that includes some refreshingly "normal" trombone playing
4*- Fast jumble, loud
5*- More quietness, driven by some rich percussion. Gets loud at -3:30 (a nice break point) and at the end.
6*- Mournful and even melodic
Track Listing
| 1. | Planarchy | 4. | No Filters | |||
| 2. | Rough with the Smooth | 5. | Mull It Over | |||
| 3. | White Writeable Area | 6. | Rothko |