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Lay All Over It
| Bassist Jason Ajemian
and drummer Nori Tanaka have been regular thursday-night fixtures at Rodan,
sometimes in a trio with guitarist Jeff Parker but just as often in an idiosyncratic
improv duo. Starting with precomposed melodic fragments, the music moves
organically from Tanaka's fierce swirling grooves to Ajemian's meditative,
standalone arco passages. Ajemian adds spontaneous vocals that range from
howled chants to original poems sung as the kind of raw, plaintive folk
music that the native of Virginia's mountain country seems to have in his
blood.
- Peter Margasak (Critics Choice, Chicago Reader) |
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