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As a former sax player with Martha And The Muffins (come on, guilty pleasure or not, who doesn’t like ‘Echo Beach’?) this new CD owes nothing to that experience. More recently he’s played with John Zorn (who’s coming to the UK soon).

Mr. Haas has clearly moved on and on this CD he plays shofar, raita, fife, taal tarang with electronics EFX all live with no overdubs. The result is industrial, ambient, middle-eastern, techno, indo/free/space jazz and probably lots more. It’s anything but the “noise” that many folks have trouble with regarding improvised modern jazz.

Stand-outs are the hypnotic ‘White Phosphorus’ and the scary ‘BLU 113 Penetrator’ and ‘Depleted Uranium (pts I & II)’.

As an anti-war statement, it was never going to be as obvious as Buffy Sainte-Marie’s ‘Universal Soldier’ or Braintax’s ‘Syriana Style’ but even so, it’s a powerful set of ten tracks. Definitely one for the warm up set to Unsafe 3.

Andy is currently a member of Radio-I-Ching, The Hanuman Sextet and occasional reunions with The Bush Tetra and The Freestyle Jazz/Avant Garde Musics Deformed Blues at Jimmy’s in NYC. Thanks, mine’s a pint of Victory IPA next time I’m in town.

Reviewed: Humanitarian War (Resonantmusic) Cat. No. 003 Release date: 2006

Tracklisting:
1. CBU 87 Steel Rain
2. Depleted Uranium, Part 1
3. AGM-142 Have Nap
4. White Phosphorus
5. MK77 Mod 5
6. BLU 113 Penetrator
7. Depleted Uranium, Part 2
8. PFM-1 Green Parrot
9. Valmara 69
10. BLU 108B Cluster

Links:
www.myspace.com/radioichingnewyork
www.freestylejazz.com
Jimmy’s (43 East 7th Street) is a relatively new space in the East Village in New York City. It bills itself as a European rathskeller with comfort food and handcrafted beers.
Gilles Peterson :: Thursday 16 November 2006 :: Part Time Heroes Live In Session
Radio I-Ching - ‘Let My People Go’ (traditional) (Resonantmusic)