What Are You Listening To?

[Jerome]

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Colin Stetson - Those Who Didn't Run

I recently found this guy and have been digginghis work a lot. He does ambient jazz textures on bass sax. It's mostly a foray into multiphonics (getting multiple sounds out of an instrument that generally plays one note at a time) and a display of Stetson's circular breathing. The intensity that he goes into with only one instrument is amazing, it sounds like a group of wales swimming in an avant-garde jazz ocean. Stetson wears a dog collar with a microphone in it to pick up on his vocals when he sings and plays at the same time. This album consists of two ten minute tracks and both are very similar but still retain an amazing quality about them. Stetson is becoming one of my favourite innovators in jazz.

I have no doubt that this guy is really trying to be innovative but to be quite honest I would rather listen to my vacuum cleaner. Don't like this at all.