JESDAT

Unless it's completely outside a thing to respect, I'll use some space here to say how sad it is that Jesdat are weakly an outside echo. Seen integrally, it's both a plan done minimalist and an appreciation held there only on conditions. So, by the insight, the seriousness, maturity and confident enough tone of Jesdat (=The City Lights as said) is a caprice and a small surprise. This by the circumstances of few musicians having gathered and maneuvered the impulse of making their music(al) speech. If they would have failed, it have been the stereotypical attempt gone foul; yet I believe they did manage something - and that's already called a proof that they have the touch within and the tempo out there. A hundred limited copies release also means a detriment of range. So, though launched satisfyingly, Jesdat are just a motive, meaning they could do more, as well as better.

What's absolutely certain to point out is how experimental the entire orchestration goes and how eccentric this adaptation can be regarded, closely, intensively - adaptation becoming, overall, standardized. Perhaps my greatest pleasure was hearing this determination; scales being impressive in their own minimal way. Naturally, the experimental doesn't have "our" connotation, but the general notion of a grasped, then shaped material, without the routine of melody or of fixations. The equivalent would be dramatic, only unspoken. Combining lines and notes, combining frame and inspired touches leads in the end to combining moments of the music speech, one conjectural enough to work, and with a bit of hope, to the comprehension of the basics: the unnatural being promoted and being relieved; the extensive work, done maybe not minute, but surely understandable. The rest of the effort is stylistic. The City Lights goes without a beauty in music, however it's the appeal that counts, raises question and gives (either similar, either different and curios) responses. The charm is visibly technical but, in depth, artist minds made all this real and present. On the firm composition comes an electronic accent or, better said, method. Modern and not at all of a beginners' try, it blurry designates their own, proper, personalized style and it sketches correlations even less clear. Basically I can point out how the electronic surface means the simple possibility of making music; equipment, maneuver, modality. Otherwise they're rather reserved and just in the spirit that's meant.

Jupe, a member of the group, tells of Jesdat's attempt to be electronic with interest in progressive rock: they haven't showed interest in anything else, here in City Lights, neither altered their wish. All left is the improvement and the polish. Krautrock (a debated range, at this point) gets a chance in the intuitive abstract and the delight of the dis-arrangements. Symbolism has a point, I'm just not certain how.And what else comes drawn, is countable.

The material of City Lights is not chiseled, but makes a nice advantage into the defined valences and in some extremes of interpretation (from furious incisions to plain silences, from melodic to the completely distorted; from the natural sound to the ambivalent transformation; from deep to much casual than necessary). Some dissonances just make the uncomfortable leisure and artificial, but mostly Jesdat reveal the power between the differences. This isn't benevolent listening; either will the expression impress strongly, either will the attention be driven into the correct and refined enough way. Emotionally, it's tad the vast that's vain, but the excitement is proper if to talk about. Cluster, void, depraved conformism: so is an interpretation entitled. Maturity, in its way, remains the forte word. Blind World being the great composition, Wings Of Fire being the opposite illusion, of an indulgence out of limits. There are those above, there are those below.

The City Lights is a good album and hopefully Jesdat will persuade. A prompt reaction and a worthy possibility. A promising act, despite anything. The good values are exciting; the weak links don't damage that badly. Caliber electronic experiment and one solid feeling that you ain't dealing with the average.