DETROIT IMPROV DUO
Intuitive Tesseract (Futurerecords USA)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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Somewhat unimpressive group of electronic jazz songs that sound as though much of the recordings are preprogrammed keyboard and percussion fills accompanied by a live guitarist that seems more intent on playing scales very quickly up and down the neck of his guitar than actually playing along with the music he's supposed to be accompanying. It's funny, but all these songs start out sounding promising, but quickly degenerate into what I've just described, with perhaps the speed of the accompanying guitarist varying on different songs. I think perhaps the problem is that these are, I think, supposed to be improv pieces-however, in order to make improv really work for me, you have to be willing to really take chances, fiddle with structure and technique, instead of just timidly staying within the confines of scale and tempo.

© 2002 - Holly Day