Look, even Charles Mingus edited some of his recordings to make them a bit more palatable. Here, we’ve got two artists who give us everything they’ve got. And, although you can feel the creative juices flying, the music here is reminiscent of Reggie Jackson’s famous line about Nolan Ryan’s fastball, “Hey, I love ice cream, but I don’t want 5 gallons thrown at me!”
Tenor saxist Noah Preminger has a rich and thick tone, and he uses it well here at a NYC gig along with Jason Palmer/tp, Kim Cass/b and Ian Froman/dr. The pianoless quartet gives hints of a feel akin to Ornette Coleman’s Change of the Century. The two songs here are fluid and airy, yet Froman’s snappy drums keep it together. “Parchman Farm Blues” includes Palmer’s sweet trumpet and Cass’s lithe bass, while “Fixin To Die Blues” is a bit freer and wilder, yet still coherent. But each song clocking in at over a half hour?!? Even Ornette took some time off to go get a drink of water!
Justin Lepany includes three songs on his album; one at 25’, one just under 8’ and the last over 14’. You get LOTS of electronics-seven minutes of throbbing open up the album before a buzz saw takes over the title track. You get something like an angry bass riff that turns into a revving lawn mower on “Tugududu (God of Smokes)” and on the only song without a parenthesis, electronic swirling that takes off where Pink Floyd’s “Interstellar Overdrive” ended, closing the album with “And Raven Stole The Sun.” Inside secrets abound for the elite