The debut album from this band from North Macedonia.
The band is a quartet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, piano, keyboards, electronics, saxophone and voices.
This band is a new band to me and indeed to the scene. Skopje Jazz festival collected the musicians and made them record this album. Good idea...
North Macedonia is a part of what in my youth was called Yugoslavia. I am pretty sure I have reviewed albums from this country and their capitol Skopje before. But those albums was from the 1970s when Yugoslavia was still around. So I am pretty sure this album means I can tick of a new country to this blog.
Yes, we are talking jazz here. Jazz and not fusion.
The jazz is dense and pretty avant-garde with some few melodic moments. That does not mean this is an out and out esoteric jazz album just for the jazz fans. The many great sax, piano and guitar solos here makes this very interesting also to the progheads...... I am one of them.
This is an album that makes you stop everything you are doing and just listen intently in joy and fascination.
The music on this forty-three minutes long album is indeed very good. I hope we hear a lot more from this band in the future.
3.5 points
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