THE KAISER REIGNS…Jeff Kaiser: Sitzfleisch I, Zeitnot V, Kaiborg: Vibrant Matters,  KaiBorg + Kjell Nordeson: IntraAction,

Playing trumpet, flugelhorn, various toys and electronics along with his voice, Jeff Kaiser releases four albums/eps that are high on experimentation and spontaneity, sometimes alone and other times with some cohorts.

Sitzfleisch I is 30 minutes and 20 seconds of Kaiser with horns, voice, pot lids, ball and chain (without Janis Joplin), a toy car and live electronics. The result is a collection of distortions, recordings, valve adjustments and effects that all but begs for someone to be chanting “Number Nine, Number Nine” all the way through.

Zeitnot V is in a similar vein, clocking in at just over 29 minutes, but sounding like a bunch of electronic distortions similar to changing the channels on our radio, with that same buzzing feed between talk shows or top 40. There were moments of ambience from the noodles of the horns and electronics, but most of the time you were waiting for someone to say “This is a test from your local broadcast service. If this were not a test…”

David Borgo plays soprano sax, live computer processing and a National Geographic collection of woodwinds along with Jeff Kaiser on a quartertone trumpet and live computer programming. The horns swirl around dizzyingly on “Instropomorphize” with gasping mouthpieces coming up for air during the marathon “Semioterial”. There are more electronic noodles in the splashy “Vibrant Matters” and navel gazing “Materiotics” than a soup kitchen Little Tokyo. Is anything sticking to the walls?

Kaiborg consists of Jeff Kaiser bringing in David Borgo on a truck load of woodwinds and computer  processings , bringing in  Kjell Nordeson on drums, percussion and vibes. There are four songs ranging from 26-10 minutes on this album, the shortest, “Ontotelic” mixing some actual musical vibes with elliptical tones, with almost 14 minutes of exotic reeds taking you to places like Indonesia on the abstract “Noumenal”. Muted horn and electronics dominate “Abductive” and the drums flail with flutes on “Quinquagenary”. Are the titles to be as obtuse as the music?

 

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