Otis Sandsjö – Y-OTIS TRE
(WeJazz Data   Evaluate by Tony Dudley-Evans)

Saxophonist/clarinettist  Otis Sandjsö is, together with bass participant PetterEldh, a key member of  Lucia Cadotsch’s Communicate Low group and in addition performs with Eldh within the latter’s Koma Saxo band.  Within the Y-Otis group he continues his partnership with Eldh and is joined by Dan Nicholls, the graduate of the Birmingham Conservatoire jazz course who appears to spend his time between London and Berlin the place Sandjsö and Eldh are based mostly.    

The music on this, the third album by Y-Otis, consists of twelve brief tracks, all between two and simply over three minutes in size, and is taken from hours of studio jams, following the sample of of Miles Davis’ method to the recording of albums comparable to Bitches Brew or A Tribute To Jack Johnson.  The trio are joined by numerous friends.

The method to the music is described within the sleeve notes as ‘layer-caked liquid jazz.  This description  additionally applies to the assorted recordings of Eldh’s Koma Saxo band (hyperlink to critiques under), and refers to a method that entails fast modifications of tempo  and fixed leaping from one musical concept to a different, all within the area of every particular person monitor.  The music is usually fairly manic, but it surely has a singular power.

The opening monitor, OOMY, units the sample with its always altering moods and sounds; it begins with Nicholls’ keys enjoying over drums with a distant sound of the saxophone , strikes right into a passage with Eldh’s electrical bass over the keys, then Sandsjö enters ontenor saxophone enjoying over some bizarre sounds from the keys earlier than it strikes quickly into an much more upbeat passage with keys enjoying over drums, after which over bass.  This all takes place inside 3.25 minutes.

Not but a subscriber of our Wednesday Breakfast Headlines?
Be a part of the mailing record for a weekly roundup of Jazz Information.

The remaining tracks, all of which have uncommon names comparable to RHUBARBS or LOOMY,  observe an analogous sample.  The previous begins with melancholy saxophone over a sombre keyboard sound, however strikes quickly right into a collection of drum beats earlier than transferring backwards and forwards between extra forceful saxophone, keys and drum beats, whereas  the latter contains a manipulated saxophone sound over an entire vary of sounds from the keys.  Every brief monitor is taken from a section of the studio jams, and this offers the album diploma of continuity.

It’s stimulating and good enjoyable.  Maybe it isn’t an album that one would wish to sit down and hearken to from starting to finish as many listeners wish to do with a jazz album.  It’s moderately an album to dip into, listening to, say, three or 4 tracks in a single go, after which return to extra tracks at a second session.   

LINK: LJN protection of Otis Sandsjo    and Petter Eldh
Bandcamp