All sorts of jazz, free jazz and improv. Never for money, always for love.
Featuring Martin Kuchen on alto & tenor sax, Tomas Hallonsten on trumpet,
Benjamin Quigley on bass and Kjell Nordeson on drums.
This is the second disc by Martin Kuchen's oddly named quartet, Exploding
Customer. This crazed Swedish avant/jazz quartet are the true explosive
ones here. Super-tight, highly charged and with that in-your-face intensity
of spirit.
These cats are too much, "Child, Child" sounds like Masada-on-speed.
The sax and trumpet are perfectly matched as they constantly throw licks
back and forth, with that smoking rhythm team burning below.
When Martin switches to tenor, he is even more impressive, blasting with
that Trane-like spirit on "The Crying Whip", the entire quartet
spewing out those heavy spirits.
They slow down for some lovely, lyrical blowing with a South African sorta
groove. They completely cut loose on "A Broken Glass", take it
as far out as they can for bit before turning on a dime and slowing down
to "Song for Che" type of touching ballad later back to a Gary
Windo/Robert Wyatt version of the same tune to close it cosmically.
They end with a joyous stomp called "Too Much Money", that has
a Dirty Dozen meets the Art Ensemble thing.
Where do they all come from, these lost treasures from around the planet?
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