Husky

Product Description Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet’s first ever studio album Husky on HYENA Records is vital and alive, bursting with fresh vision in arrangement, composition, improvisation, rhythm and recording. It's an album with seemingly multiple layers that are revealed slowly and surely with repeated listens. Its rhythmic vocabularies often draw from hip-hop and funk, which is part and parcel of SST7's vernacular, as equally called upon as the harmonic languages of Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Count Basie and John Coltrane. With a five-front horn line, SST7 create a gigantic sound. And yet they don't shy away from nimble, dancing harmonies that can be as refined and delicate one moment as they are muscular and bruising the next. Husky's opening cut, "The Third Rail," emerges like a locomotive in the distance, faint horns growing ever louder as it rumbles forward. Rather unexpectedly, however, it turns elegant, managing to tread the line between lithe swing and grinding, gutbucket thump. The politically charged, "Go To Hell Mr. Bush," is a window into the band's psyche because the music seemingly declares that creativity in the face of conservatism is the best anecdote. "Syncopate The Taint" explodes in twisted fragments of brass. "Fry His Ass" has a rock steady groove that slowly and hypnotically uncoils. Skerik's tenor saxophone floats along mysteriously. Hip-hop influences like J. Dilla and Questlove can be heard here, while a Wurlitzer winds in and out with subtle shadings. "Irritaint" is a showstopper with New Orleans' brass band funk in its DNA. It doesn't take much imagination to envision Big Easy revelers dancing all night to this one. By the time "Summer Pudding" hits, SST7 are blowing the roof off. With its booming melody, big energy and insistent rhythm perhaps there's a new anthem waiting in the wings for summer 2006. Review "...a perfect sound for its time." -- Glide Magazine "...one of this year's best jazz CDs that shines from start to finish" -- Billboard "Jazz's best kept secret." -- Rolling Stone "The music is superb - inventive, exciting, disheveled, mangy and, by Lincoln Center standards, inspirationally ill-behaved." -- Buffalo News From the Artist "For me, Husky is that rare combination of everything lining up perfectly at the right time. You're lucky if you get one of these in a lifetime," states Skerik. "The band had been on the road touring, so we knew the music inside out. We had a day off in Los Angeles, so we went into The Sound Factory, which is a one-of-a-kind studio out there and cut the entire record that day." "We paid as much attention to where it was recorded and how it was recorded as anything else in the process," declares Skerik. "Husky Hoskulds is such a brilliant engineer and we gave him complete authority to do what he does when it comes to capturing and presenting our performances. In that way, he almost becomes an eighth member of the band. The recording has as much intention as the music itself." About the Artist Skerik's name is out front, but in many ways SST7 functions like a true collective with all seven members contributing compositions and arrangements. The septet consists of Skerik on tenor saxophone, Craig Flory on baritone saxophone and clarinet, Dave Carter on trumpet, Hans Teuber on alto saxophone and flute, Steve Moore on trombone and Wurlitzer, Joe Doria on Hammond B-3 and John Wicks on drums. Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet roared out of Seattle in 2002. Skerik named the band after the term, "Syncopated Taint," which was used by America's first ever drug czar Harry J. Anslinger to describe the nation's moral decay in the 1930s and '40s as caused by the combination of jazz and marijuana. Skerik can also be seen touring America with Les Claypool, Garage A Trois, The Dead Kenny G’s, Bobby Previte’s The Coalition of the Willing and Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk among others. He was a founding member of Critters Buggin'.
ASIN: B000FPYNVC
VSKU: DBV.B000FPYNVC.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Skerik's Sycopated Taint Septet
Binding: Audio cd
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