Uivo Zebra

Name: Uivo Zebra – Uivo Zebra
Brand: Bocian Records
SKU: BCUZ
Price: 10.90 EUR
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FormatCDLabelBocian RecordsGenreExperimental

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When improvisers turn to electricity and imposing volume levels, the results are sometimes as intense as they are tedious, because they forget that it can quickly become a stodgy, lumbering mess that bleeds out way too soon. Not so here, as the musicians of Uivo Zebra have the experience, but also (and more importantly) the awareness that the most enduring results are found when guts, self-knowledge, shared vision and discipline are kept in rigorous balance. Which needn’t imply it becomes safe or toothless. Make no mistake: this record still hits you like a nasty headbutt.

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Cat. number: BCUZ

Year: 2018

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While discussing an album by legendary drummer Jack DeJohnette, jazz critic Gary Giddins once aptly stated: “Jazz is at bottom a conflict between the will to freedom and the desire for discipline.” He was of course referring to the common situation (in jazz, at least) where musicians work with composed material and stretch it, provide their personal slant with the element of improvisation. But you could argue that even in surroundings where the composed element is discarded, the tension…

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