NoEcho
9.4
9.4
/Nu jazz, Avant-jazz, Experimentalism, Crossover, Ambient, Modern classical, Chamber music, Improvised music/
Comment: this 8-track publication is a follow-up to the Polish experimental jazz duo B.R.O.`s debut issue Etudes EP (2008) which was an astonishing blend of old and modern, being a melting pot for conciliating cool jazz and nu jazz, frenetic electronic explorations and restraint downbeat-esque undercurrents. However, the brothers Zamojski will continue running on the same path, offering additionally to the improvisation-soaked and hook-laden territory also such sort of music which outreaches the borders of jazz in very apparent way. Stylus, for instance, is an oddball which gets into ambient and classical-induced sort of desire thus reminding more of Dead Can Dance. Or Take-up Reel which provides some spacey glimpses of the outer space within the mixed realm of spoken word and chamber/cabaret-alike milieu. Indeed, B.D.O. does mean a quality sign on its own.
