Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz
The most recent solo offering from Food's Thomas Stronen takes things in a decidedly different direction. A renowned jazz percussionist and drummer, Stronen abandons the traditional drum kit setup and makes a percussion record fused subtly with electronics. Composed and performed in real time, Stronen takes elements of jazz, improvisation, and IDM and meshes them together in a weird sonic stew. The results over the eight-track offering reveal a cross between some of Steve Reich's later works mixed with the quirkiness of the Tigerbeat6 catalog and a pinch of Zappa's Synclavier works thrown in for good measure.
---Rob Theakston, allmusic |
