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The Toll of a New Machine
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Zu
Carboniferous
Good enough to scare the hell out of Wynton Marsalis | Ipecac
With 14 albums since 1999 and an impressive list of collaborators ranging from jazz standouts Ken Vandermark and Mats Gustafsson to Can legend Damo Suzuki and experimental musician Nobukazu Takemura, the pairing of Zu with Ipecac Records couldn’t be more fitting. Like label owner Mike Patton, the Italian trio is eclectic, almost deliriously so, alternating between free jazz, noise, math rock and even metal with astonishing ease, not caring one iota about offending any of the genres’ purists. Dominated by the blaring baritone sax of Luca Mai and devastatingly heavy electric bass of Massimo Pupillo, Zu almost resemble a post-rock version of the great, sadly-missed Morphine, sans the beatnik romanticism, instead imbued with a post-millennial tension that’s both unsettling and enthralling.
—Adrien Begrand
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