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4.0 out of 5 stars
Cellosax music, August 27, 2009
This review is from: The Brain Of The Dog In Section (Audio CD)
I saw Fred Lonberg-Holm perform with the Vandermark 5 recently, and picked this CD up at the merch table. I didn't know much about what Lonberg-Holm does outside of Vandermark's group, but the fact that he recorded with the mighty Peter Brotzmann would count for something, I thought.
Untitled improvisations rule the roost and if you are already familiar with Brotzmann's skronking avant garde style, you know what you are in for. Fred Lonberg-Holm's manipulation of the cello can border on electronics. I guess you can say that it is an accurate substitute for sequences, laptops, or whatever the electronics guys use in ensembles.
Within one "section," the music can be chaotic noise, smooth and lyrical, or tensely sparse. At one point it sounds like both men suddenly decided to play the same thing simultaneously. Not often you get to hear that in an entirely improvised album.
You like challenging noise? Go ahead, you'll click with this. And look at that artwork. Yikes.
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