If you know you know, I guess.
PURPLE TRAP - The Stone (LP) (2023/2025)
I at least knew the label Karlrecords. I also knew Japanese Noise improvisation legend Keiji Haino. And of course i also knew bass player Bill Laswell, who I recently reviewed several times with the return of his trio with John Zorn and Mick Harris, PainKiller.
Rashied Ali, who had played drums with Jazz greats like Sonny Rollins, Pharoah Sanders and both Alice and John Coltrane only seemed familiar via name recognition to me, and if he had already been present somewhere in my music collection, I'm not actively aware of that.
However this was still enough to imagine how this live recording of their trio Purple Trap from December 2005, which Bill Laswell first released digitally for his Bandcamp channel subscribers in 2023, would roughly sound like: Intricate Free Jazz, brute Noise, a masterful balance of chaos which finds and dissolves structure - and musicality too seasoned to bother with seeking validation.
Ali as one of the originators stays closest to the traditional image of Free Jazz, while Laswell fluidly moves between smooth stabilizing lines and more experimental or sick distorted sounds.
Haino, who also delivers some manic vocals, is all over the place between surprisingly sweet and listenable and - much more frequent - parallel dimension rock star mannerism and other delightful Avantgarde dada.
Or in other words: legends at work. It's good. Friends of Free Noise Jazz can't do wrong with this record.
If you purchase the vinyl release don't throw away your download code, because one of the seven tracks is only available digitally!
However this was still enough to imagine how this live recording of their trio Purple Trap from December 2005, which Bill Laswell first released digitally for his Bandcamp channel subscribers in 2023, would roughly sound like: Intricate Free Jazz, brute Noise, a masterful balance of chaos which finds and dissolves structure - and musicality too seasoned to bother with seeking validation.
Ali as one of the originators stays closest to the traditional image of Free Jazz, while Laswell fluidly moves between smooth stabilizing lines and more experimental or sick distorted sounds.
Haino, who also delivers some manic vocals, is all over the place between surprisingly sweet and listenable and - much more frequent - parallel dimension rock star mannerism and other delightful Avantgarde dada.
Or in other words: legends at work. It's good. Friends of Free Noise Jazz can't do wrong with this record.
If you purchase the vinyl release don't throw away your download code, because one of the seven tracks is only available digitally!
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