Tuesday 24 March 2015

Fire! Orchestra

Enter (2014) ...

Jazz progressives from Sweden on Rune Grammofon.  'The creator has a master plan' Pharoah Sanders meets Sun Ra meets Prodigy ...

Enter part 4 ... 


 The result is four sides of blissed-out transcendence, galvanised by an immediacy that anchors the ensemble to soul and free jazz even as its joyous riffing takes it in the direction of psychedelic and progressive rock. Opening with a hypnotic Fender Rhodes motif, 'Part 1' sees vocalist Mariam Wallentin (Werliin's partner in Wildbirds & Peacedrums) set out the Orchestra's vision in deep, soulful cries of "Let us all go… let them all go… let it all go… feel it all go…" Metallic sheets of electric guitar are joined by the Mellotron, no less, its distinctive frosty tone harking back to the late '60s as surely as do Wallentin's ecstatic vocals. 'Part 2' kicks in with another '60s reference, as a deranged take on the Beatles' 'Tomorrow Never Knows' morphs into a livid collision between guitar and electronics before giving way to a hymnal section for horns and brass... thequietus.com ...



Enter live at Jazzhouse, Copenhagen, 2014 ... 



Fire! Orchestra is the group Fire! (Mats Gustafsson, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin) combined with other musicians from the scandinavian free jazz, noise and improvisation scenes.

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