Artist : Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra
Title : Take Off!
Genre : Jazz
Year : 2009
Date : 05/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 08
Label : Alientransistor
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 58:01 min
Size : 77,6 MB
Tracklist:
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01.gamma pluto delta 06:53
02.asteroids! 08:39
03.lava lovers 05:11
04.radioactive people 07:10
05.scene 3 06:42
06.cotton candy nebula 02:37
07.milky way fables 12:38
08.postludium 08:11
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58:01 min
Whoever claims to have heard anything like this
before must be lying..
The twenty-piece ANDROMEDA MEGA EXPRESS
ORCHESTRA, led by 25-year-old Berlin based
composer Daniel Glatzel, set off a firework of energy,tes
musicality and fresh ideas and juggle genres, styles
and musical references in a way that can make you
dizzy. Jazz doesn't begin to describe it. We're talking
about everything from minimalism to film scores,
romanticism, modern classical music, and Bartok
right through to Frank Zappa.
Glatzel also cites computer games, the Second Viennese
School, cartoons, Renaissance Polyphony, shabby
infomercials and elevators in expensive hotels as influences.
The music of AMEO is so rich in direct or indirect quotes
that you really don't know where to begin. Take Off! is true
to it's name - the album is wild, headstrong, haunting,
atmospheric, funny, disturbing - all at once.
Pulling out all the stops, Glatzel uses musical registers
from varied cultural references and alarmingly crazy time
signatures, all with a nonchalance which borders on the
outrageous. Big-band swing is interrupted by free-jazz
cacophonies, and excerpts from crime movie soundtracks
are mixed with fanfares of imaginary film production
companies.
All of a sudden the blissfully elated mood will shift to its
opposite and we find ourselves in the middle of oppressive,
sprawling soundscapes where all is boundless and wonderful.
The AMEO are 20 young musicians all from differing musical
and cultural backgrounds - from Germany, France,
Switzerland, Canada, Norway, Japan, Thailand, the Czech
Republic and South Korea. As leader, composer, arranger
and woodwind player Glatzel is responsible for the record's
concept as well as for composition and arrangement.
AMEO have already left Korean concert halls and Bavarian
provincial backwaters astonished, and occasionally frightened,
with their harmonic adventures and rhythmic madness.
They also work closely together with the Indie-Band The Notwist
- live and on their newest album "The Devil, You & Me".
That each individual member of the orchestra must bring with
them stylistic openness and the highest possible joy of playing
goes without saying. It's a debut that leaves you asking what
can possibly follow it.
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