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XaDu Random Abstract, MoonJune Records, released April 2015
XaDu is the result of the combination of two geniuses of contemporary jazz-rock: the Catalan Xavi Reija drummer and Serbian guitarist Dušan Jevtović (based in Catalonia). The music product of this partnership is entitled "Random Abstract" and comes to us via the seal of MoonJune Records (also responsible for publishing solo work of both). Reija strategy and Jevtović is to take advantage of the reaper own sonic architecture duo format to focus on creating textures and atmospheres, circling around them and generating variants of turn to give life to the musical ideas It occurs along the repertoire of the album. Using resources psychedelia, post-rock and progressive epic duo jazz-sound scheme that knows establish its own luminescence spartan rigor against the grain of prevailing in the germination of musical ideas that are happening. Let's review the details of this disc recorded in two separate sessions that took place in the studios Murada House Barcelona, May 2014 and February 2015, respectively. The album saw the light of day on April 20: the repertoire of it was made up equally by the two members of the duo, creating Reija the first three piece and the sixth while Jevtović created another four, with the eighth ('Workplace') a joint creation.
Lasting just over 6 ½ minutes 'Secrets' opens the album with an understated air of self-constraint stealth from the duo works with a simple motif repeated with subtle wit; with the creation of a crescendo in the interim climax, the duo specific partial resolution of expressive thrust, usually, is artfully sublimate. Then follows the homonymous piece, which turns into a robust expressiveness simultaneous casting roots in the space-rock tradition and paradigm Crimsoniano, and activate an electrifying jam generously fed abstract vibrations. 'Decaying Sky' occupies a space of almost eight minutes and makes working the special dynamic tempo of 7/8; in this context, the duo works a patent and exultant expression that makes us equally evoke the magic of light and quietly assertive HOLDSWORTH engineer a WINGFIELD. Special mention displays structural sophistication in the grooves that creates Reija drummer from his seat. 'New Pop' is the first composition Jevtović with which we run: based on a scheme of jazz-pop trend, the duo embarks on an exercise that does not deny striking graceful spaces including psychedelic resources and deployments force rocker. With the kind of peak that had been implanted along the sequence of 'Random Abstract' and 'Decaying Sky' attitude 'New Pop' brings an interesting variation for persistent extroversion. When the turn of 'Something In Between', comes the assembly prepares to explore areas of mystery and density where free rein is given to the games own multi-thematic contrasts of progressive gender and daring interactions flirt openly with the legacy of the progressive, jazzy 60s and 70s. If anyone ever imagined how it would sound a hybrid between KING CRIMSON stage 73-74, the first Mahavishnu Orchestra and MASSACRE, because this piece is the magic answer to that music lover hypothesis.
With Deep Ocean ', the duo explores further the dominant density in the previous topic and leads to a sonic universe of overwhelming concerns and strained dynamics: sprouts again Crimsoniano factor in the general frame of the piece, but this After an overwhelming darkness suggestively about the paradigm of rock-in-opposition of PRESENT and the lysergic adventures of guitar-centric krautrock. The sequence of the last three issues, 'Place With A View', 'Workplace' and 'No Hope', completes the overall atmosphere of the album solvent creativity. 'Place With A View' carries the charm of a dream floating in the strange unconscious amid soothing aromas, while 'Workplace' plunges into the incandescent vivacity of a jazz-rockers vibrations where strength of character dresses with fine garments. In short, 'No Hope' closes the curtain with a post-rock aura appears to be initially friendly, but also includes some effective tricks dissonant taking us by surprise. All this was the repertoire of "Random Abstract", a beautiful jazz-progressive offering with which the duo XADU available to stimulate the delight of the public concerned to understand what is happening in the European avant-garde jazz-rock of the moment. How good it is to see that the individual genius of Xavi Reija and Dušan Jevtović have been amalgamated in a well-integrated itself bipartisan mind.
Edited by Svetonio - June 18 2015 at 05:48
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A great review of XaDu's "Random Abstract" CD
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