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Kritik aus Cadence New York, Oktober 2009
Urs Voegeli –
flyOut: Not All Birds Play Be-Bop, meta 49
Voegeli writes
startlingly fresh, captivating music in a post-Fuison mode,
and he plays guitar with a distinctive twist – which can be
very electric as well as bellpure depending upon the moment
at hand. Voegeli's pieces are thoughtful, delicately
intricate, not cool exactly but introspective at times, hot
at other times. These are distinctive compositions – quiet,
sophisticated, never banal, well arranged, with unusual
guitar parts. The influences of Frisell, Rypdal,
Abercrombie, McLaughlin, Coryell, even Hall are there
lurking underneath but this is a man who goes beyond and
gives you of his own musical substance. His band really
kicks out the jams too and they have obviously gone to some
lenghts to negotiate all of the hairpin turns, abrupt halts,
reversals and skyward flights laid out on Voegeli's jagged
musical roadmap. Each member is a definite asset to the
overall sound.
''Atomic Robot Man''
is as good an example as any of the wideranging territorial
sweep that Voegeli and company provide. The number begins
with harmonics and muted notes on solo guitar in a new music
sort of way – only with Free Jazz vocabulary. Then enters
squeakingly sparse sax, percussive and noteworthy bass and
crackling drums. It's an extended exercise in loosely free
sonar exploration, with soprano and guitar now taking a
busier role. Then there's an up-swing robotic lick and a
hard Rock, out chord ''b'' section. It's hip. That's
followed by a ''c'' section of more robotic intricacies with
all involved in a jagged rhythmic line and Wehrli's soprano
wailing on top. Then follows an implied funk and more
odd-metered line while the rhythm section continues. Voegeli
solos whimsically in an advanced harmonic-melodic-rhythmic
mode, in a rather light-touched fashion, while drums and
bass start kicking a jagged funk motif. Then it goes back to
the robot thing for a second and then returns to the Rock
thing with Voegeli busily wigging out in a series of
interesting electric lines.
This is a heck of a
record and it goes where others have trodden, but goes
boldly and further onto a distinct path of its own.
Excellent music. Talented writing. Sensitive performance.
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