(Avant-garde Jazz) Peter Van Huffel`s Gorilla Mask - Howl! - 2012, FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

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FILE "Peter Van Huffel`s Gorilla Mask - Howl!.flac" WAVE
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "Legendarious"
    PERFORMER "Peter Van Huffel`s Gorilla Mask"
    ISRC DEBN31200183
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "Z "
    PERFORMER "Peter Van Huffel`s Gorilla Mask"
    ISRC DEBN31200184
    INDEX 00 05:39:28
    INDEX 01 05:41:66
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "Fire Burning"
    PERFORMER "Peter Van Huffel`s Gorilla Mask"
    ISRC DEBN31200185
    INDEX 00 13:09:11
    INDEX 01 13:13:06
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    TITLE "Monkey`s Revenge"
    PERFORMER "Peter Van Huffel`s Gorilla Mask"
    ISRC DEBN31200186
    INDEX 00 21:09:27
    INDEX 01 21:12:07
  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    TITLE "Dirty City"
    PERFORMER "Peter Van Huffel`s Gorilla Mask"
    ISRC DEBN31200187
    INDEX 00 26:53:04
    INDEX 01 26:55:16
  TRACK 06 AUDIO
    TITLE "Haven`t You Learned Your Lesson Yet"
    PERFORMER "Peter Van Huffel`s Gorilla Mask"
    ISRC DEBN31200188
    INDEX 00 32:54:52
    INDEX 01 32:58:08
  TRACK 07 AUDIO
    TITLE "Iggy`s Secret"
    PERFORMER "Peter Van Huffel`s Gorilla Mask"
    ISRC DEBN31200189
    INDEX 00 37:36:36
    INDEX 01 37:38:67
  TRACK 08 AUDIO
    TITLE "Fucked"
    PERFORMER "Peter Van Huffel`s Gorilla Mask"
    ISRC DEBN31200190
    INDEX 00 45:35:19
    INDEX 01 45:37:08
  TRACK 09 AUDIO
    TITLE "Angry Monster"
    PERFORMER "Peter Van Huffel`s Gorilla Mask"
    ISRC DEBN31200191
    INDEX 00 48:33:49
    INDEX 01 48:35:63

It has been said by many people many different ways that silence was the best song ever written and us humans have taken it upon ourselves ever since to improve on it. Peter Van Huffel decides to throw away the notion of a subtle addition to nothingness in exchange for a power trio sound that embodies part Rush and part The Thing. Huffel (alto sax, composer) and his band Gorilla Mask consisting of Roland Fidezius (bass) and Rudi Fischerlehner (drums) take us down a path where there is anything but silence, where they sometimes shake hands and sometimes butt heads.
I feel the pull.
On the one hand they are a heavy rock band with an alto sax filling in a lead vocal as it were. On tracks such as "Fucked", the rhythm is meticulous and comes complete with a big fat drum solo section. Then there is the other side, their free, wandering side displayed on such tracks as "Fire Burning" and "Monkey's Revenge" but I was still finding it difficult to describe exactly what I was hearing. I was missing a connection, something to get me hooked into Huffel's vision. Then it hit me.
I have to play it loud.
Out came the earbuds and on the stereo it went, loud, and man does this album benefit from volume, as much of it as you can give it. Tracks like "Dirty City", a distant cousin to Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" come blasting out at me. I forgot that I was even trying to understand my connection to the music and just sat back with my head nodding to the beat and my fingers tapping on the arms of my chair. At this volume you can really hear just how good Huffel is. His ideas are full of abandon and he gets it all out quickly, sometimes very quickly. On "Z", he punches over the pulses of the band until he lets loose over the heavily distorted interlude.
I play it again.
Gorilla Mask have saved the best for first. "Legendarious", is their mission statement, their blueprint and their compass all wrapped up in their style of heavy, free, mad, and fun. On "Iggy's Secret", the band plays what seems to be a lullaby for a troubled child.
As much as I enjoyed my new found appreciation for this record a little piece of me still wonders what a solo record by Huffel would sound like or at the very least an album with a band with a little less Howl!

Acoustic Bass – Roland Fidezius
Alto Saxophone, Composed By – Peter Van Huffel
Drums, Percussion – Rudi Fischerlehner