Showing posts with label jazz rock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jazz rock. Show all posts

28 February 2012

Moving Sand - "Secret Garden"

Jazzy P.J. Harvey (9/10)

Le genre est plutôt multitendances, un peu de jazz, de folk de blues, la toile de fond est intimiste .le groupe est composé de quatre musiciens venants d'univers musicaux très différents.La toile de fond du groupe est la création d'une ambience intimiste.

I don't know where others hear folk on this album. It's ridiculous. I feel as if I listened to a different recording. It's a jazz rock album without even smallest traces of folk.

Nevertheless, it's really great rock album. Instrumental parts are very fine. The singer reminds me of P.J. Harvey and I love such dirty way of singing. So much is happening throughout each track that you want to listen to it again immediately after the album ends.

Well done!

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23 February 2012

Moving Sand - "Gray Cell"

Dolores O'Riordan meets P.J. Harvey (9/10)

Album a tendance accoustique mettant en avant l'harmonie du chant et les textes. Creé dans un petit home studio avec du matériel plutôt sommaire.Vous souhaitons un beau voyage dans le monde de Moving sand

A very powerful recording. I recommend it to every fan of intelligent rock music (I do not like a word "alternative" - who said crap is "regular" and good music is "alternative"?). I love the way everything is mixed on this album - an acoustic guitar, an electric guitar, great percussion work, a Jew's harp, great female vocals, traces of jazz, instrumental improvisations.

Oh, and one more thing - this whole "folk" thing. This album has nothing to do with folk music. Use of an acoustic guitar and a Jew's harp does not turn something into folk. I wonder if these "folks" ;-) that tag it as "folk" listened to a single one folk album in their life. I doubt it.

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