OFFERING PART III / PART IV

Christian Vander's more jazz-oriented Coltrane tribute side project came back with a second album, built around a 44 minute journey which is made god by Emmanuel Borghi's piano work and the vocals of Mr & Mrs Vander. Another Day is pretty catchy from the start, with light and fast paced jazz stylings and a back and forth vocal from the Vanders, and for the most part is entertaining throughout its length. The vocals switch almost seamlessly between English and 'lyric free'. There's very little break from the call and response style in the first passage which slowly rises in intensity until the 13 minute mark where everything is stripped back to Vander's wide range of scatty melodies and some light piano and drums for 5 minutes or so. 20 minutes in we get some chaotic jazz, with the piano just getting mashed with ham fists and Animal from the Muppets on drums. This is the part of jazz I don't like... That's a few minutes before we're back into the previous calm style briefly before returning to the chaos and noodling. Some of the noodling is tuneful but its no where near as fun as the first 20 minutes of the track. In honesty, they probably could have cut the track in half.

The footnotes are then the confusingly titled Offering Part 2 which is a short track featuring a triumphant piano jingle and Stella Vander's almost yodelling vocals, and Ehn Deiss, which is very melodic on piano again, and this time with Christian Vander on the main vocals. Its quite a mysterious sounding track, particularly when Stella and Isabelle Feullebois' backing vocals and Khalifa's flute is introduced. If anything I actually enjoy this 5 minute track more than the 45 minute one!