3000 are back. Or better - the group originally named 1000 is back with a new incarnation and a new album on Umland Records which has been put out on the circuit on October 1st, 2k24. This time we see Bart Maris, Jan Klare, Wilbert De Joode and Michael Vatcher working in a quintet setting alongside trombonist Steve Swell, catering a set of two extended improvisations on "Unrepeatable". Their new longplayer, a roughly 50 minutes spanning affair, opens with "Hands" which presents a backing of thundering, yet skeletal drums as a foundation for floating brass lines and intricately layered, oftentimes detailed dialogue between various wind instruments which is in parts completely free whereas other sequences are operating with the confines of 'regular' Jazz rules whilst the subsequent "Tongues" sees the quintet working and playing on a deeper level with still sparse drums subdued in the background of the overall mix, hints of nocturnal melancholia as well as rather sustained tones even though phases of non-tonal experimentation and x or controlled agitated quasi-chaos occur throughout. One for the advanced Improv connaisseur, this.
Album artwork on Instagram!
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