Contemporary Noise Quintet -
Pig Inside the Gentleman
provided by Zarko
I just completed my second listen to this album, the first being approximately a week ago around the same time of day. When I first put it on last week, it seemed like my enjoyment of it would be limited. Very jazzy/loungy, and I don't listen to much of this type of music. Jazz-influenced, sure, plenty of that. Lots of downtempo and chill-out music too. But this is more straight-up jazz than I'm used to. Anyway as it went on there were definitely parts I enjoyed. I was reminded of
The Budos Band at times, a band I enjoy quite a bit, most likely due to the horns. They are more jazz-funk though. There were parts of this album that also reminded me of some jazz-influenced electronic acts that I enjoy, such as
Amon Tobin,
The Landau Orchestra (an orchestra-based project from the guys in
Landau, the artist I happened to trade to Zarko),
Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (not that electronic actually), and maybe
Bersarin Quartett. Anyway...on to my second listen. I like this, it's very chill despite not being downtempo. Lounge-y definitely. I like the piano, horns, chello, and whatever else...the only parts I found my self not liking were when the sax was present. I don't know what it is...but it's a bit irritating to me. A bit cheesy also. Sometimes I could deal with it, but most of the time not. Overall I'll definitely play this again at some point, as it's pretty good, but I didn't enjoy it to the point of keeping it in heavy rotation. Definitely worth a listen if you like jazz though.