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The Bird Architects
Gone
SLAMCD 278
Between
them, the Bird Architects (drummer/keyboard player Marco Anderson, electric
violinist Peter Evans, saxophonist/guitarist Aaron Standon and bassist Mark
Turner) have experience in everything from jazz and classical music to klezmer,
free improvisation and rock, and this wide range of musical interests is
apparent throughout this nine-track album.
Jazz-rock and free jazz are perhaps the most immediately discernible styles, heavy rock riffs giving rise to scrabbling, multi-textured free playing and wild, uninhibited soloing from Evans and Standon in particular, all driven by the extraordinary 'buffalo bass' of Turner and the powerful drumming of Anderson, whose previous credits include stints with everyone from Najmar Akhtar to Tony McPhee's Groundhogs, Andy Sheppard and Courtney Pine to Steve Vai, but admirers of figures as apparently diverse as Frank Zappa and Ornette Coleman will find something to enjoy somewhere in this pleasing jumble of passionate, no-holds-barred sound. Unclassifiable but fascinating, frequently exhilarating music, best played extremely loud.
