Peter Van Huffel´s Callisto: Meandering Demons

Avant Jazz / Free Improvisation / Avant-Garde
premiera polska: 2024-06-03
opakowanie: Gatefoldowe etui
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Editor's Info:
Borne of jazz tradition, yet audaciously and extravagantly dismissive of its more fatigued conventions, comes the devilish Meandering Demons, the fantastic debut full-length from Peter Van Huffel’s CALLISTO.
Largely eschewing the full-throttle punch and pile-driving groove of his longstanding Gorilla Mask unit, this new bass-less quartet finds Canadian firebrand Van Huffel resolutely exploring the frazzled frontiers between composition and free-form improv, making like Dune Guild Navigators, juggling space and time.
Finding maximal headroom in the formation’s low-end vacuum, Meandering Demons captures CALLISTO as they double down on their built-in propensity for chicanery, spontaneity and surprise, operating with bracing tonal candour.
Van Huffel throws down snaky and snarky from his baritone sax, locked in a series of combustible, register-exchanging salvos with Lina Allemano’s bustling trumpet hustle. Joe Herstenstein’s percussion ferments arcane textural fission and rumbling tub-thumping polyrhythms, underpinning the phantasmal phrasing of pianist Antonis Anissegos, while subtle electronic embellishments enrich the acoustic interplay.
Established protocols are buried beneath a cloud of sulphurous Mephistophelean reek, an otherworldly by-product of this band’s wicked alchemical experiments.
Across Meandering Demons’ seven intoxicating hybrids, Van Huffel’s intricately-detailed structures – some expansive and suite-like, bursting with architectural ingenuity, others aching like a slow-burn, fraught, subtle harmonic twists and suggestive layering – segue into wildly writhing, occasionally impish, extemporisation.
Bizarre instrumental spectres hone in and out of view, like Lovecraftian entities lurking amid the chattering chaos of CALLISTO’s collective tongue; an absorbingly mysterious vernacular, honed to dramatic vibrancy via the mastering chops of audio wizard, James Plotkin.

muzycy:
Peter Van Huffel baritone saxophone, electronics
Lina Allemano trumpet
Antonis Anissegos piano, electronics
Joe Hertenstein drums

utwory:
1) Meandering Demons (7:14)
2) Ravenous Hound (8:54)
3) Glass Sanctuary (7:21)
4) Interdimensional Planet Hopper (11:46)
5) Rude Awakening (9:05)
6) Transient Being (8:34)
7) Barrel of Monkeys (10:55)

wydano: March 2024
nagrano: Recorded October 12th & 13th, 2022 at Hansa Studios Berlin by Martin Offik
Mixed by Martin Offik in Berlin, Germany
Mastered by James Plotkin at Plotkinworks, USA

more info: www.cleanfeed-records.com