(Free Jazz, Jazzcore) [CD] Albatre - A Descent Into The Maelstrom - 2013, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

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Today the new Clean Feed batch has arrived, and we're still struggling to get some of the previous releases reviewed. This album comes from Shhhpuma, the Portuguese label's side project, now featuring Albatre, a sax trio that brings us a refreshing and modern new sound. The trio is Hugo Costa on alto sax, Gonçalo Almeida on electric bass and German drummer Philipp Ernsting, but their take on jazz is anything but what you can expected. It sounds like the grunge version of jazz, with heavy moments of raw violence alternated with quieter melodic moments, like a mixture of Zu with Jim Black's Alasnoaxis. Bass and drums come with all the anger and energy of a rock or punk band, while the alto screams and wails full of distress and agony like only a sax can in the best of free jazz modes. The music is raw, direct, without embellishments and needless decoration. This is straight-in-your-ears power jazz, but then of the clever kind and with depth. A Descent Into The Maelstrom ... indeed! ~ stef, freejazzblog.org, august 8, 2013
Goncalo Almeida has appeared on the blog previously with the Lama trio and "Oneiros" on which he was responsible for most of the compositions. Do you remember the oniric landscapes he painted with the help of Susana Santos Silva (trumpet) and Greg Smith (drums)? If yes, do not expect them again. Albatre is a different sort of animal alltogether. A slightly brutal one. Albatre's joins together two portugese musicians based in Rotterdam and a drummer grom Germany, their debut is released by Clean Feed sublabel Shhpuma, and to know that Clean Feed has put Albatre in a special "out there" category says something. The other hint is the album's title "A Descent in the Maelstrom". So are you ready to jump into the abyss? If so, get aboard "Nautilus" that takes off slowly, with white noise, soft mallets on plates, a lotof resonating bass and a solemn sax melody. Soon enough the crazy takes over, a turmoil starts, and builds up a wall of noise that finds a resolution in a hypnotic drive and accumulated mass of sound. "Maelstrom" has some modular electronic effects that add even more darkness to the abyss already there between the fuzzy bass, screeching sax and broken drum beats. The pieces are connected together and "Maelstrom" falls down right into "Aphotic Zone" which gives a chance to catch your breath - small gongs, distant sound of distorted sax, recurrent and spare bass tones - it all create an atmospheric suspense, you can feel the danger luring behind the corner and the piece gathers speed and volume and intensity until the trio galopades away on a dense groove, unstoppable and straight-forward. The schizoid madness continues through the remaining three tracks, dense and heavy. The cd lasts barely over half an hour, ends with majestic "Albatrossia" (with horn section sound magnified thanks to some looping). "Descent in the Maelstrom" collides ultra-low bass, heavy and fast drums, paranoidal saxophone screams in order to create a freaky amalgam of metal, jazz, noise, punk, krautrock and else (it might sound more fun to add core or at the end of each of these or doom at the beginning or something similar). Albatre's musis is not for the light-hearted. Improvised in form and spirit, metal in materia it might proof to be too far off for many listeners on both sides of the barricade, but for those who are willing to stretch their ears and boundaries, it's a hell lot of perverse fun.
ps. the dark cover quite aptly captures the spirit of the music. ~ jazzalchemist.blogspot.ru, january 17, 2014

Hugo Costa - alto sax, loops
Goncalo Almeida - bass, effects
Philipp Ernsting - drums, electronics