Habyor

Habyor

ASIN: B0001ZWGGU

Track Listings

1. Talk About

2. Z

3. Rade

4. Cha

5. Part Wolf

6. Hello Kombiant

7. Let It Down

8. Be Real

9. Endgatherers

10. Stay Go

Editorial Reviews
The Wire
"On first hearing, drummer Jim Black's debut as leader has a knockout impact that's more than confirmed by repeated listenings."

Product Description
Jim Black, Hilmar Jensson, Chris Speed and Skuli Sverrisson play together with a deep common musical love and understanding…and so they create the unmistakable sound of AlasNoAxis.

Black works and tours extensively with such diverse groups as Pachora, Chris Speed's Yeah No, Uri Caine's Gustav Mahler project and Laurie Anderson's band.

Tracks:

Talk About
Z
Rade
Cha
Part Wolf
Hello Kombiant
Let It Down
Be Real
Endgatherers
Stay Go

Album Description

Jim Black, Hilmar Jensson, Chris Speed and Skuli Sverrisson play together with a deep common musical love and understanding…and so they create the unmistakable sound of AlasNoAxis.

Black works and tours extensively with such diverse groups as Pachora, Chris Speed's Yeah No, Uri Caine's Gustav Mahler project and Laurie Anderson's band.

Customer Reviews:

Thanks to Jim Black.......2004-09-28

People will be talking about this music for a long time. Arguments will come and go as to whether this is jazz or rock or some hybrid yet to be labelled.
I don't think that matters.
This music sings with the very joy of creation. A sound that is common to all genres when the artists involved are speaking truly and without thought for markets or labels.
What we have on this CD is four musicians dedicated to the task of realizing the compositions of their leader, Jim Black...and we have a leader with the wisdom and faith in his band to allow them to extrapolate and improvise around, over and through his wonderful musical ideas. They create sound-scapes that are evocative, minimalist, dense, industrial, poetic, humorous and/or just plain beautiful...sometimes within seconds of one another.
Alasnoaxis are, I believe, that rare phenomenon in music...something new. They combine their collective musical experiences and create something immediately accessible and yet at the same time, exotic...foreign. Accessible because there are no barriers to this music other than the preconceptions you might bring to it. Foreign, as there are no four gentlemen at this time putting it down in this particular way...of course. This music has the `shock of the new' but is not self-consciously avant-garde... it seems to exist for the best reason of all...because it must.

I don't hear `Habyor' as better or worse than the two previous releases from Alasnoaxis. I hear a continuity of purpose in the three CDs so far. I wait for further releases impatiently.

Those with ears will listen and hear...those with a need to pigeon-hole might be in trouble.

Thanks to Jim Black.

P.S. - The packaging, production and recording quality are all first rate.

maybe time for a new line up?.......2004-08-23

This band may have exhausted all there resources recording the last 2 albums. This line up just can't achieve what they had on the first recording together... While the music is far from bad or bland - it doesn't sound as new and exciting as the first effort "Alas no axis." The songs may have had insightful improvements with a new line up or even just replaceing 1 or 2 of the musicians to get a different feel. If you have the first two albums by these guys - you can safely avoid this effort. Again, it's not bad - but it doesn't break any new ground at all...

Average customer rating:

Habyor
Jim Black & AlasNoAxis
Manufacturer: Bomba Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B0002ADJGU
Release Date: 2004-07-05

Tracks:

Talk About
Z
Rade
Cha
Part Wolf
Hello Kombiant
Let It Down
Be Real
Endgatherers
Stay Go

Jazz Music:

Jazz Music

Jazz Music