You have to believe me when I tell you that I’ve really tried. I’VE TRIED AND TRIED! THERE’S NO MORE EFFORT I CAN MAKE. I’ve listened to scores of avant-garde jazz, used hours of my time attending concerts that have consisted of sonic “blurps,” “Bleeps” “Zia-Zia” and “Thump, bump bump bump” and other assorted effects that make you think of Don Martin cartoons. Composer/conductor Jurgen Friedrich mixes a jazz quartet (Hayden Chisholm/as, Achim Kaufmann/p, John Hebert/b, John Hollenbeck/dr) with a large string orchestra, creating cacaphonic chord structures and atonal improvisations that always make me wonder why spontaneous playing always results in jarring the ears. Is this the musical version of Lord of the Flies, demonstrating that left on their own, people are basically evil?
Pirouet Records