Turn on the slippery soaked mystery of 'Mendoza' by the instrumental experimental alt rock fusion three piece outfit Under the Reefs Orchestra from Brussels, Belgium and you may start to see things in your head. It might be Peter Sellers from The Pink Panther (circa 1963) or a fashionable Uma Thurman and John Travolta doing the twist in Pulp Fiction (circa 1994) or even Daniel Craig and Olga Kurylenko strolling through the Bolivian desert in Quantum of Solace (circa 2008), need I go on?
The point is that 'Mendoza' feels dangerously cool and beautifully quirky. The guitar work by Clément Nourry dips into many genres sounding stealthy and surfy. The huge dreadfully cool bottom end / dashing sounds by saxophonist Marti Melia and the splashing hip anchoring drumming by Jakob Warmenbol (both members of the punk jazz band Don Kapot) create a Salvador Dalí-esque framework for Clément to paint sideways on.
Fucking cool. 'Mendoza' is from Under the Reefs Orchestra's 2022 album 'Sakurajima'.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://underthereefsorchestra.bandcamp.com/album/sakurajima
https://underthereefsorchestra.net/
https://www.facebook.com/UndertheReefsOrchestra
A sonic-minded power trio of obsessive, biting riffs and mists of asymmetrical sonic cycles. Inspired as much by French chamber music of the 19th century as by Jim O’Rourke or Moondog, Under The Reefs Orchestra’s hypnotic music unleashes a cosmic energy and leads the listener to a trance among underwater volcanos.
Guitarist Clement Nourry’s gentlemanly demeanor masks the great fiery passion of a true musical virtuoso. “I focus on one thing, and one thing entirely” says Nourry. For him, that one thing is the guitar. Combining the deep theoretically understanding of a skilled mathematician (which he actually is) with a true musician’s soulful instinct, Nourry is as comfortable with John Fahey as he is with experimental jazz. To put it simply: he shreds.
This trip through the timeless realms of sound can be heard as a soundtrack of the ecological apocalypse we live in.
︎Post Rock , Post Jazz, Experimental
︎For those who like :
Moondog, Comet is coming, Yonatan Gat, ADHD, Kamasi Washington, E. Morricone, Talk Talk (Spirit of Eden), Ryuishi Sakamoto, …
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