5/17/2011
Hox Vox - Il Cavallo Spaiato (2011)
/Avant-prog, Classical, RIO, Experimental rock, Jazz, Fusion, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Progressive/
Comment: Gianluca Missero`s (aka Hox Vox aka Turbogrind Terrorizers) new album is really worth to listen to. Actually every recent step by his side needs to be looked back to the way passed along already. The Venice resident has been one of the stalwarts of the nowadays RIO/ avant-prog movement, while being theoretically predictable at this methodical point, however, he has managed to bend his follow-ups into sufficient progressions via off-kilter electronics, changing the metres, adding new patterns and elements. This time the previously known structures are densely laced with drum and bass rhythms and other breaks, fusion, jazz standards, spoken word interventions, samples from the stadium and streets. By the stylistical smorgasboard it can seem unkempt and destructed, yet, on the other side all the developments are apparently strictly controlled. In a word, while being stubbornly mind-evoking and a little contradictive by its speculative aspect, however, this does not flavour the practical side at all. Indeed, it is the sign of a great master.