(Fusion, Jazz-Rock, Avant-Garde, Contemporary Jazz) [WEB] Troyka (Kit Downes, Chris Montague, Joshua Blackmore) - Ornithophobia - 2015, FLAC (tracks), lossless

TROYKA ORNITHOPHOBIA Жанр: Fusion, Jazz-Rock, Avant-Garde, Contemporary Jazz Год издания: 2015 Издатель (лейбл): Naim Jazz Номер по каталогу: naimcd210 Страна исполнителя (группы): UK Аудиокодек: FLAC (*.flac) Тип рипа: tracks Битрейт аудио: lossless Продолжительность: 40:53 Источник (релизер): WEB (спасибо Sykeya) Наличие сканов: frontТреклист: 1. Arcades 2. Life Was Transient 3. Ornithophobia 4. Magpies 5. Thopter 6. Bamburgh 7. The General 8. Troyka Smash 9. Seahouses  Лог проверки качества AUDIOCHECKER v2.0 beta (build 457) - by Dester - opdester@freemail.hu~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-=== DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE! ===-Path: ...\Troyka - Ornithophobia (2015) [FLAC]1 -=- 01 - Arcades.flac -=- CDDA (100%)2 -=- 02 - Life Was Transient.flac -=- CDDA (100%)3 -=- 03 - Ornithophobia.flac -=- CDDA (100%)4 -=- 04 - Magpies.flac -=- CDDA (100%)5 -=- 05 - Thopter.flac -=- CDDA (100%)6 -=- 06 - Bamburgh.flac -=- CDDA (100%)7 -=- 07 - The General.flac -=- CDDA (99%)8 -=- 08 - Troyka Smash.flac -=- CDDA (99%)9 -=- 09 - Seahouses.flac -=- CDDA (100%)Summary 99,78% CDDA164167524  Об альбоме  LondonJazzNewsOrnithophobia. Whether - or not - the title contains a sly snub to Charlie Parker's Ornithology, Troyka's third album is full of exactly the kind of fast-paced virtuoso instrumentals and harmonic exploration that the modern counterpart of the bebop great couldn't help but appreciate.The opener Arcades lurches from a pulsing pensive start into Troyka's familiar challenging rhythms, supporting guitarist Chris Montague's atonal Nintendo inspired riffage before dropping back and forth through a rock march and a wailing Hammond before expiring in a tantalising abrupt finish. A similar high-tempo register is reached in Thopter, a Joshua Blackmore penned pandemic zombie narrative, where strutting post-apocalyptic sounds of a screeching Hammond stomp alternates with guitar explorations built on a perma-shifting drum shuffle.There are certainly other compositions with gusto, and they run through the album – the energetic jarring of Magpies for example - but the mood throughout is tempered with Montague's more introspective, ambient compositions Bamburgh and Seahorses. Kit Downes's thoughtful classic The General favours a patient tempo escalation over time signature trickery, with restrained Bill Frisell-esque guitar improvisation cruising over the deep bass underpinning before reaching its triumphant finale. While The General plumbs Troyka's traditional instrument array, the brief drum and liquid synth exploration of Troyka Smash shows how the group are keen to embrace new sounds. Indeed, Ornithophobia is the first of their albums to feature compositions by someone outside of the band themselves, Berlin-based Swede Petter Eldh.Indeed the inclusion of Eldh seems to have paid dividends: his minimal house opening to Life Was Transientis refreshing, the trio's trademark intensity subtly built into tightly arranged electonica: reliable yet glitchy garage drum-snaps form the coherent backdrop to synth sound experiments warmly reminiscent of the Warp Records back catalogue.That said, perhaps the strongest expression of the new path Troyka have set is in Ornithophobia, a composition by Montague and the album's title track. Here they stick with the carefully layered acoustic palette of Squarepusher or Flying Lotus, yet use them to form the rip-roaring moments of deconstructive guitar, organ throb and sparse sharp drumming that they’re acclaimed for.Ornithophobia is undeniably a true Troyka product – an earthy jazz-rock fusion with all the avant-garde trimmings - but here we see them delving into acoustic mixes deeper than their three-person line-up, and with an ear to the ground of the 1980s Chicago sound. These new nuances are exciting now, and bode fascinatingly well for the future. (Dan Bergsagel)  The GuardianTroyka’s last album, Live at Cheltenham Jazz Festival, spliced this British jazz/electronica group’s take-no-prisoners fusion approach with the sound of a big band. But Ornithophobia represents the trio at their most unbuttoned and sometimes their most lyrical. They stir together prog-rock clamours, thrash-jazz, blues, minimalism and a cauldron of other volatile ingredients. The album, enclosed in Spanish comic artist Naiel Ibarrola’s surreal artwork, can be pulsatingly mellow, rippling with Kit Downes’s soft keys lines, then veer off into Zappa-like melodies and thumping electric blues. Spacious movie-soundtrack swoops are accompanied by hip-hop beats, and there are almost motionless stretches of Hammond organ minimalism, mood-music that turns to heavy rock, or spacious reveries like the seductive finale, Seahouses. The title track, inspired by guitarist Chris Montague’s fear of birds, joins jagged figures, weird Latin grooves, murmurs of synth-strings and guitar-hero sprints. Produced by Django Bates collaborator Petter Eldh, Ornithophobia is Troyka’s best album to date, and a kaleidoscopic series of impressions of how fast they’re moving on. (John Fordham)  Состав Kit Downes - keyboards, organ Chris Montague - guitars Joshua Blackmore - drums