YES, WE ARE A JAZZBAND

This is the first Ixthuluh album and it is clearly different to the later ones. The band has played in this cast a music which has strongly orientated itself by the models of the jazz and fusion scene. Many pieces thereby are jazzily oriented and this is still stressed by the very free style of playing with long jams in the pieces, anyhow, during the live recordings. The fact that the group could do it also in a different way is pointed in "You can best free", a rocksong which does a Punkjazz-band from the group. The recordings themselves look unfinished and are more sketches than finishedly polished numbers. The album shows the band at the beginning of their style search and with it appropriately aimless. Ixthuluh has done actually a clear style change on the later albums towards to a psychedelic Krautrock, which is hardly to be noted in this disk. I take a pleasant to their debut, nevertheless, it brings music off the well-trodden trails and contains some musical surprises.