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Artist: FANU, BILL LASWELL fanu {at} fanumusic {dot} com ]
Title: Lodge
Format: CD
Label: Karlrecords contact {at} karlrecords {dot} de  ]
Rated: *****
Hey, this another fine product featuring Laswell as a producer and Robert Musso as engineer, do you need anything more to figure out how the sound is like?. Beside the production the mighty hand of the "white ambassador of bass" Laswell and Fanu's break-beat skill characterize the rhythm section of this cd. Soft and groovy bass, stylish and pounding rhythms but differently from the collaboration with Submerged there's no trace of break-core, don't worry the usual "drum and bass" element is there but the atmosphere this time is way more jazzy, you have break-beat and classy fusion but also splinters of the post-Miles Davis era scattered all over the crime scene. Nils Peter Molvaer is a member of the crew as well as Bernie Worrell and Graham Haynes and with sailors like these you can bet the ship is gonna sail thru the warm water of modern black music, but at the same time don’t expect it to be a black album to the core. I think what this people really inherited from Davis (sorry for repetitions) is the global approach to music, atmosphere and introspection, that’s way I thing they get the most right when they twist and reshape jazz and funk to melt them together with dance-floor beats and/or nightly moods (like in Orh). I can’t say in which percentage Fanu did this and Laswell that for their styles on this work are really complementary and probably the arrangements of these top class hosts helped a lot to refine and keep together what was an already well assorted combination. Poor Miles, I’m sure he would have loved to be featured among the guests.


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Review by: Andrea Ferraris


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