There
have been times when I’ve heard horns (mostly of the saxophone variety) come
out during certain ambient pieces of music that might otherwise be described as
noise, and I’ve thought of them as being some sort of acid jazz or “jazz noise”,
but with Cut the Beige Wire this is simply some fantastic almost straight up
traditional sounding jazz.
Partially
this reminds me of someone such as Catherine Sikora, yet it could just as
easily be one of the multi-talented musicians who you’d find on a pairing with
Stephanie Lak. It is just that good, so I can’t really
compare it with too many other things that I’ve heard because I just don’t listen to (modern) jazz
in the traditional or classical sense and don’t hear pieces of it coming out in
as many artists as I’d like to either.
It
is worth noting that before the end of Side B this does take on a little bit of
the outside-of-jazz, which I like to think of as borderline 8bit, and thus this
brings me to think about someone I once knew.
We’ve all probably known someone like this in our lifetime: the horn
snob.
Someone
I once knew thought that ska was bad and thus branded anything with horns as “ska”
even if it wasn’t. (And so many styles
of music have horns but are not ska) I’m
kind of hoping as I write this that the review isn’t taken as my thinking
anything with horns is “jazz”, but this just doesn’t sound like anything else I
really listen to, as good as it is, and so I’m slightly stuck for
comparisons.
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