Audition
9.4
9.4
/Avant-garde, Weird, Experimentalism, Conceptual, Free jazz, Improvised music/
Comment: my first experience related to Jaap Blonk`s oeuvre does hark back to 2004 when I did confer honour upon his collaboration with Maja Ratkje. The Dutch musician can be compared with such artists as Michael Schiefel, Meredith Monk, Laurie Anderson who are known by their vocal experiments/acrobatics. Here are uploaded 10 tracks, taken out from two albums The Splinks, and BRAAXTAAL (1993) both of them issued on the Kontrans records. There can be detected for dizzy grooves and acute experimentation by both sides, by Blonk and his co-musicians, respectively. Of course, Blonk`s sound is sophisticated and highly self-conscious based on within the frames of the academical avant-garde and jazz-relied improvisations. In a word, this is a legacy in the compartment of intriguing music.
