Andy Haas - curved soprano saxophone, fife, morsing, raita, electronics
Don Fiorino - guitar, mandolin, glissentar, banjo, lotar, lap steel
Dee Pop - drums, percussion & things that go boom in the night
Influences
Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, King Tubby, Steve Lacy, Paul Desmond, John Lee Hooker, The Stooges, The Viscounts, Othar Turner, Tinarwen, Getachew Mekuria, Elvin Jones, The Skatalites, Count Ossie, Ravi Shankar, John Coltrane, Paul Desmond, Thelonious Monk, Uncle Monk, Ramones, Bill Monroe, Earl Bostic, Cedric Brooks, Jimi Hendrix, Bad Brains, Tom Waits, Dr. John, Voodoo, Dirty Three, Blurt, Howling Wolf, Duke Ellington, The Band, Steve Lacy, Sun Ra, The Contortions, Mickey Baker, Tim Rose, Slim & Slam, Flipper, Hound Dog Taylor, Professor Longhair.
Sounds Like
Esorteric party music, stoner swing, no wave, ambient folk electonica, punk jazz, our world music and beyond, skavant chamber music, disembodied dub blues.
The problem with some music in the avant garde realm is one of source material. Much like jam bands that only listen to the Grateful Dead or Phish become pale replicas – their improvisations a xerox of a xerox so to speak – groups without external stimuli other than other improvised music become tired clichés. Radio I-Ching demonstrates what an avant garde mindset can do when coupled with an eclectic set of nfluences. The influences come from an equally eclectic trio of musicians. Drummer Dee Pop is dually known as a member of the ‘80s rock band Bush Tetras and the curator of the now-defunct Freestyle Creative Music Series in New York. Andy Haas, who plays sax, piri and live electronics on this, the group’s second disc, previously released a politically motivated solo record for shofar and raita. And string-player (guitar, lap steel, banjo, glissentar and mandolin) Don Fiorino’s commitment to historic preservation goes past music with a career working to preserve Ellis Island.
When these three come together, the aesthetic is Downtown; it is just not clear in what city…New York? Cairo? Memphis? 12 tracks run the gamut from group originals to works by noted Egyptian musicians Mohammed Abdel Wahab and Hamza El Din, Jamaican drummer Count Ossie, film composer Alfred Newman, folkie Jimmy Driftwood, Captain Beefheart and more “traditional” jazz composers like Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Sonny Simmons/Prince Lasha and Thelonious Monk.
With the players, what they play and what they play it on, The Fire Keeps Burning sounds like a stew on paper. But remarkably, the trio has created a new aesthetic equal parts jazz, rock and world music that is both sincere and appealing. Each piece is a flavor in the aforementioned stew but none of the nuance is lost. The group is summed up by a variation on the old maxim: musicians should play 10% of what they know.
- Andre Hemkin
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