Troyka

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TroykaOpis:Review Troyka are yet another young London bo who are inhabiting the increasingly vibrant scene that's devoted to the uninhibited collision between jazz, rock, free improvisation and funky jamming. They're beaming off into a pletely different direction when pared to the work of keyboardist Kit Downes' previous band, Empirical. Downes has so far been heard as an acoustic pianist, but in this setting he concentrates on the organ, cranked up to its grittiest settings. Troyka's other two members are not so familiar on the jazz scene, but they're certainly empowered to excite. Guitarist Chris Montague and drummer Joshua Blackmore add to the forceful jazz-rock judder, with spiny constructions and shifty beats, as Downes jams out on his electro-warbled keys. It's a transgressive sound, full of bent notes and shiny contortions, erupting with powerchords and prog rock organ bursts, and even featuring the odd dose of bluesy bottleneck slide guitar. The opening pair of tracks are so profoundly excessive in their pursuit of leaden riffage that, for a while, subsequent pieces can't help but feel restfully inactive by parison. Tax Return contorts around an organ susurrus, with guitar that's by turns prickly and overloaded. It's not surprising that New Yorker Wayne Krantz is cited by the band as a heavy influence. The Frenchman Marc Ducret could be another contender as a guitaring forefather. Blackmore's drum patterns are highly detailed, the Troyka bination ending up as being at once avant and visceral. The chunky organ flamboyance can't help but remind the listener of Soft Machine's Mike Ratledge. Even mightier, Clint must surely be dedicated to Mister Eastwood in Dirty Harry guise, with its extremely weighty powerchords and bassy overhang. The itchy time signatures continue, but most of the heavy artillery is reserved now until the album's closing tracks. A sinister bass padding dominates Bear, then Cajoch gets into some fidgety clenching. Twelve rains organ droplets, with a guitar that arcs up from vibrato-ed pings to the return of that earlier scalding sensation. The granite riffing is sustained during Born In The 80s, but it's now alternating with a glowing sensitivity. With Noonian Song, Montague is getting into Krantz via the arcane tunings of poser Harry Partch, or maybe even the bendy tonalities of Fred Frith's table-top guitars. --Martin LongleyFind more music at the BBC This link will take you off in a new window Product Description Recorded by noted engineer Robert Harder (Acoustic Ladyland, Babyshambles, Brian Eno etc), Troyka s self-titled debut distills the essence of the bands intense live shows in to a finely focused album. Fom the elemental goove of Tax Return, to slide-driven -throb of Clint, sly groove of Noonian Song, shimmering, tricksy Twelve and the twisted beauty and carefully calibrated mayhem of Born in the 80s it perfectly nails the bands dark-toned lyricism, shape-shifting grooves and intense improvisational power. Play Troyka loud, they won t let you down.

Review Brainiac prog-jazz mavericks led by keyboard enfant terrible Kit Downes (alongside hugely inventive guitar dude Chris Montague and tricksy beat manipulator Josh Blackmore), Troyka mix insanely catchy tunes with plex yet rocking riffs. Troyka are fast being a force to be reckoned with; like King Crimson for the iPod generation. --Time OutThey create their own steamy micro-climate where rock, dance and jazz are pressed into high energy anthems. 4 Stars. --Observer Music Monthly About the Artist Troyka are Chris Montague (guitars and loops), Joshua Blackmore (drums) and Kit Downes (organ), three young musicians based in London whose intense live shows have seen them hotly tipped to follow in the foot steps of Polar Bear and Portico Quartet and bee the next young band to explode from the capital s fertile jazz scene. A multi-textured trio with a febrile imagination where no role is pAutor:TroykaNośnik:Audio CDPłyt:Język: Data wydania: 2017Waga: 0.18 gramWysokość: 0.6 cmSzerokość: 5 cmDługość: 5.6 cmUWAGA: Kupując produkt na tej aukcji zgadzasz się na wydłużony termin realizacji wysyłki (10-14 dni roboczych). Podany towar pochodzi z zagranicznego magazynu, stąd wydłużony czas realizacji który podany jest obok.