The Joachim Kühn Group – Bold Music (1969/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 37:43 minutes | 739 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPS Records
The title Bold Music says everything and nothing, this is a challenging and ambitious avant-jazz date that features Joachim Kühn tackling everything from piano to alto sax to antelope horn. It’s nevertheless most audacious for tempering its outré leanings with soulful, melodic grooves and insistent rhythms that make the music more accessible and more idiosyncratic. Working in collaboration with bassist/cellist Jean-François Jenny-Clark, drummer Stu Martin and percussionist Jacques Thollot, Kühn fuses improvisational skronk and sound-library smoothness to make a record that occupies both extremes of the MPS label sound at the same time. Somehow, Bold Music is both free and easy, and that’s a rare feat indeed.
Tracklist:
1. The Joachim Kühn Group – My Friend the Jogi (03:50)
2. The Joachim Kühn Group – Nobody Knows You Tomorrow (04:51)
3. The Joachim Kühn Group – Bold Music (04:27)
4. The Joachim Kühn Group – Vampires Castle (04:30)
5. The Joachim Kühn Group – Depression and Illusion (03:28)
6. The Joachim Kühn Group – The Third World War (09:11)
7. The Joachim Kühn Group – Message from Upstairs (03:44)
8. The Joachim Kühn Group – The Child Out There – Somewhere (03:38)
Personnel:
Joachim Kühn – piano, alto saxophone, horn, shanai, bells, gong, steel drums, voice
J.F. Jenny-Clark – bass, cello
Jacques Thollot – drums, steel drums, tambourine, voice
Stu Martin – drums, bells, voice
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