RISK

Far Corner

RIO/Avant-Prog

4.12 | 157 ratings

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A new instrumental Avant chamber release from 15 year Cuneiform veterans FAR CORNER, aggressive music in the vein of �NGLAG�RD and THINKING PLAGUE.

This is music that, for me, has very little soul, very little added creativity to the almost Jazz-Rock Fusion by the numbers compositions, if you will. For instance, comparing this to Dewa Budjana's release from the same year, Mahandini, we can see how the musicians playing with Dewa add so much extra to every composition--to every bar and measure of each composition, whereas the band members here on Risk add nothing more than is on paper; it's stiff, by-the-book performances of the music just as it is written and no more. Tight, yes, but flat and soulless. The band shows great skill and dexterity--and compositional facility--yet it feels as if every song, every note, is performed just as it was composed, just as it plays out on paper. This lack of spontaneity and instantaneous and extraneous creative input is not, to my mind, representative of the hallmarks of either jazz or jazz-rock fusion. Again, if you listen to some of the other candidates for Album of the Year--like Unaka Prong's Salinity Now! or All Traps on Earth's A Drop of Light or Anna von Hausswolff's Dead Magic or even Gleb Kolyadin's self-titled solo debut--there are many instances of nuanced, subtle creative input from the individual performers--you can hear it (sometimes sounding like mistakes but definitely feeling "unscripted") there are many, many instances that catch the ear in which you know the individual musician is adding something fresh and individualistic to the weave. Far Corner seem to be making, here, factory-made rubber-stamped music (if admittedly complicated music). It's too stark and mathematical; it's not for me.

BrufordFreak | 3/5 | 2019-1-11

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