Throttle Elevator Music: Final Floor

The jazz collective Throttle Elevator Music consists of Erik Jekabson/tp, Mike  Hughes/dr, Lumpy/dr, Kamasi Washington/ts, Matt Montgomeryb-p and Gregory Howe/g-B3-synth. Their fiprevious album was a collection of concise and catchy tunes, and this follow-up goes in the same direction. The eleven tunes sound like a melding of ideas somewhere between early Weather Report and The Ventures. There are surreal and impressionistic moods as on “Supraliminal Space” with echoey moments by Washington on “Standards Reproached” and “Fast Remorse”. Upbeat and soulful moods get a good backbeat on ”Caste Off” and “Ice Windows” with plenty of splashy synth, rich  horn sounds also sounding a bit spacy, and dark indie pulses coming out on the rockfish “Recirculate”. The emphasis here is to create quick  portraits of sound, maybe for the transistor radio. Will they stretch out in concert? There seems to be plenty of room, but the songs in 45rpm form hold up well.

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