Pierre Favre - European Chamber - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Pierre Favre - Souffles [COMPACT DISCS] date 04/05/2011

Macroscope, the fifth album and Mack Avenue debut by his adventurous trio The Nels Cline Singers, provides a measure of the long-running group's staggering range. Captivating and continually surprising, the album finds the instrumental trio with the slyly deceptive name veering in one off-kilter direction only to suddenly be overwhelmed by another drastic stylistic shift, often within the space of a single tune. Serrated psychedelia becomes consumed by soulful Brasiliana, blissed-out electronica overwhelmed by garage-rock skronk. Then there's the wholly unexpected InchRed Before Orange,Inch where a howling Hendrix-inspired solo suddenly erupts in the middle of a slick lounge-jazz number, Cline unleashing the inner George Benson that few of us expected he even had.

Pierre Favre Ensemble - Le Voyage [COMPACT DISCS] date 12/07/2010