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<blockquote data-quote="Γιωργος Δανοχρηστος" data-source="post: 995342" data-attributes="member: 797"><p>Δεν το συζητω, ο Άιχερ ειναι περιπτωση και μετρο συγκρισης. Πληροφοριακα παραθετω αυτο:</p><p> </p><p>150 years ago Baudelaire wrote in his cycle of poems «Flowers of Evil»: «Music often takes me like a sea!» With these words as my motto, I flew across the big pond to obtain an opinion from an independent expert, and naturally also so as not to be suspected of nepotism. The Canadian cultural journalist Juan Rodriguez has been writing about jazz since the late 60s and lives in Montreal where the worldʼs biggest jazz festival takes place in the summer. After the monster event I talked to an exhausted yet still lucid critic about Swiss jazz in general and the five HAT HUT releases in particular. Even though Rodriguezʼ judgement derives from a non-representative sample, I believe he gained amazing insights from the external perspective of the explorer:</p><p></p><p>«Swiss jazz is for me a huge discovery – very enjoyable and refreshing. The Americans have a big problem with their jazz tradition: How to overcome the immortals? The Swiss donʼt seem to have those hang-ups. Their music is totally non-derivative and yet based on a very keen study of what came before, they avoid the cliches because they know them. Thereʼs a sense of surprise and less emphasis on the Bebop vocabulary than in the US. The music is not claustrophobic, it leaves you time to think about what youʼre hearing, thereʼs no show-boating, but a lot of clarity. The emotions are linked with the intellect, you can hear their brains having fun. The musicians have a good bullshit-detector. HAT HUT is a great label, it is more adventurous and more outward-bound than ECM, I think the mission of this label is to present another kind of Third Stream music. The young Swiss groups match up with the rest of the catalogue, they play new and very carefully considered music and the programming of the discs is exceptionally good with its ebbs and flows. This music gives me a totally different feeling than any other form of jazz.»</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Γιωργος Δανοχρηστος, post: 995342, member: 797"] Δεν το συζητω, ο Άιχερ ειναι περιπτωση και μετρο συγκρισης. Πληροφοριακα παραθετω αυτο: 150 years ago Baudelaire wrote in his cycle of poems «Flowers of Evil»: «Music often takes me like a sea!» With these words as my motto, I flew across the big pond to obtain an opinion from an independent expert, and naturally also so as not to be suspected of nepotism. The Canadian cultural journalist Juan Rodriguez has been writing about jazz since the late 60s and lives in Montreal where the worldʼs biggest jazz festival takes place in the summer. After the monster event I talked to an exhausted yet still lucid critic about Swiss jazz in general and the five HAT HUT releases in particular. Even though Rodriguezʼ judgement derives from a non-representative sample, I believe he gained amazing insights from the external perspective of the explorer: «Swiss jazz is for me a huge discovery – very enjoyable and refreshing. The Americans have a big problem with their jazz tradition: How to overcome the immortals? The Swiss donʼt seem to have those hang-ups. Their music is totally non-derivative and yet based on a very keen study of what came before, they avoid the cliches because they know them. Thereʼs a sense of surprise and less emphasis on the Bebop vocabulary than in the US. The music is not claustrophobic, it leaves you time to think about what youʼre hearing, thereʼs no show-boating, but a lot of clarity. The emotions are linked with the intellect, you can hear their brains having fun. The musicians have a good bullshit-detector. HAT HUT is a great label, it is more adventurous and more outward-bound than ECM, I think the mission of this label is to present another kind of Third Stream music. The young Swiss groups match up with the rest of the catalogue, they play new and very carefully considered music and the programming of the discs is exceptionally good with its ebbs and flows. This music gives me a totally different feeling than any other form of jazz.» [/QUOTE]
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