The debut album from this band from Norway.
The band is a quartet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars and saxophones.
Norway has seen a lot of new jazz/fusion bands during the last five years. This growth is the result of the now public jazz high schools and universities in Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim.
Hence this new noisy rackett.
The Verge attacks the listener from the first second with a full frontal assault of saxophones and guitars.
Some of the music is pretty atonal. None of the music is particular easy listening. This quartet is not pussy footing around.
The music is indeed dissonant avant-garde jazz.
There is method in this madness, this forty minutes long full frontal assault on the listener. The music is indeed good and has a lot of very interesting details.
The result is a good album. An album which is a good addition to the Norwegian scene but who may be a bridge too far into jazzland for a lot of prog rock fans. Nevertheless, check it out.
3 points
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