YOG 2 - SEFIRA

For his second 'Yog' album, Yochk'o Seffer teamed up again with jazz composer, keyboardist and programmer Thierry Maillard, whose work here is perhaps more dominant than Seffer's saxophony. The drumming and keys are so very synthetic (at times I wondered if it was using preset rhythms you'd get on a keyboard), and so loud in the mix that the Sax work is sometimes a mere footnote, which is a bit of shame. There's also no traces of Seffer's Zeuhl days here. Such is the way of this style of jazz with a lot of free-form improv that you do sometimes feel Seffer and Maillard were sat in different rooms and just played something with no communication, and just merged it together. Hirech and Lady-rap have a little bit of difference about them with some funk style but that's the only point of difference. It all just feels too artifical, and certainly doesn't have the appeal of Seffer's more experimental Neffesh Music series.