(Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Improvisation) HUBBUB - UB / ABU - 2000, FLAC (tracks+.cue) lossless

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Hubbub / UB - ABU
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REM GENRE Avantgarde
REM DATE 2000
REM DISCID 180CE202
REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v0.99pb5"
PERFORMER "Hubbub"
TITLE "UB - ABU"
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    TITLE "UB"
    PERFORMER "Hubbub"
    PREGAP 00:00:32
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "ABU"
    PERFORMER "Hubbub"
    INDEX 00 26:04:50
FILE "02 - ABU.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00

"The players maintain an uncanny control over the direction of their improvisations; there's so much to listen to here, it's a wonder there are only five members in this collective. An intriguing record, and wonderfully executed." -R.di Santo, incursion.org

Minimal and fascinating AMM influenced improvisations from this collaboration of well-known players. Beautiful and unusual music.
These two freely improvised pieces by the makeshift group calling itself Hubbub live up to the group's name. The music is variously loud, cacophonous, clamorous, minimalist, static, and largely directionless. Yet, oddly, there is an appeal, the same sort of attraction that attracts nihilist yearnings embedded deep in the soul. The combination of two saxes, guitar, piano, and drums is capable of numerous permutations of sound. Here, the results are alternatively frenzied and confused, leading nowhere. Whether these pieces symbolize restlessness, disillusion, and despair is a question for the musical philosophers. That the songs are unlike anything else is more certain. They are not related to the thrash-and-burn style so prevalent in avant-garde circles; nor are they chamber-like. They are the sort of noise-infused kaleidoscope likely to annoy anyone not remotely open to their unique perspective. There are many passages in which the volume is lessened, even to a near-whisper, when the tinkling of the cymbals is barely audible and the saxophones are a faint whimper. There is never the semblance of melody or logical progression, and the simple fact that the quintet can sustain interest during two pieces, each clocking in at more than 26 minutes, is a remarkable feat. The saxes are absorbed into a percussionist perspective, as are the piano and guitar, so that there is a wholeness that defies the individuality of separate identities. Exhausting to listen to, and probably even more so to perform, this collective effort succeeds primarily as anti-art -- a protest, perhaps, against reason and technology, but it can just as easily stand for nothing at all. ~ Steven Loewy, Rovi

Frédéric Blondy - piano
Bertrand Denzler - tenor sax
Jean-Luc Guionnet - alto sax, soprano sax, jaleika
Jean-Sébastien Marriage - guitar
Edward Perraud - drums, perc