Quartet 1999

Track Listings

1. Nana - Up

2. J.B.

3. Five Beats

4. Nine Beats

5. Hayai Kyoku

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
TRIO 96 is the misleading name of a current Japanese Progressive jazz-rock band, alternatively existing as a quartet and as a duo ! Truly different from the rest, its music owes as much to free-jazz as to the Canterbury School or works by Frank ZAPPA. The result is instrumental tracks both dense and energic, based on semi-improvisations and performed by virtuosos. Let's give a special award to a real frenetic drummer. "Quartet 1999" leads the listened to wild musical landscapes, with nervous and tense guitar chords, frantic rhythms and astounding saxophone parts. Recorded four years later by the guitar player and the drummer alone (The same line-up as Larry CORYELL's at the end of the Sixties), "Duo 2003" appears to be less frantic but still experimental, sometimes reminding the KING CRIMSON’s Eighties period. A special care has been given to guitar chord sounds and percussive drumming, lifting this disc to a rich and fascinating experience. Not to be missed !

Quartet 1999,Trio 96,Musea/Poseidon

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