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Short and Sweet NYC, CD Review >>
Avant-garde jazz painted slivers of drums spattering, basses moving through like an underground subway, horns fluttering and dipping like birds with the occasional breathy “ah’s” and “yeah’s” of song or dialogue one would hear hurrying down the street in pieces of rush hour conversations make up most of Seeds of Djuke a very experimental expressionist piece that is so disjointed its connected. Settling into one particular bass solo or Spanish guitar run that later catches up with a horn mocking the riff could be too complex and too difficult to understand, so one must simply ride and feel. Seeds of Djuke operates like art. Each observer will take away their own very distinct impression, no one will hear this album the exact same. An experimental guitarist from Cleveland, Ohio, classically trained in Vienna, Austria who later took up residency in New York’s Lower East Side, On Ka’a Davis is easily a seductive musical genius. “There, In Theatre,” moves like a storm. It starts off very percussive, very rhythmic, with starts and stops, then royally gets carried on the shoulders of frenetic guitars like trade winds, soulful slices of vocals and a bass thump that holds the song into a convoluted dialogue of a wild guitar fighting against yet another, soon becomes a more honed, more structured jazzy dance groove. The artistry, the undulating beat of drum and high hat taps are brilliantly crafted. Part jazz, rock, Spanish, afrobeat, funk, and a whole lot of complex unstructured instrumentation make On Ka’a Davis a renowned eccentric.
Chanda Jones 06/24/09 >> go there
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