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Triphasic (Gary Willis)
"Shaman"
www.garywillis.com
Oh man... Willis is back with the amazing Llibert Fortuny on
saxes and David Gomez on drums with a follow-up to "SlaughterHouse3"
& "Actual Fiction" and he has come out swinging! No, not like
"ding-ding"ga-ding" swinging, like Mike Tyson swinging...
True to form there is a lot of interesting effects and some wonderful
programming going on here. The group (and Willis' programming
chops) sound as tho it's matured and grown since the last few
releases. While I loved the previous releases, compared with this
one,they sounded like these guys were just getting warmed up!
Groovy as all he**, and just chocked full of trippy and supremely interesting samples, loops and general wackiness.
Gomez has such a nice pocket here.. I really fell in love with
his drumming all over again here. Llibert is an incredibly
interesting horn player.. I really love his tone, lines and use
of effects! And, of course, Gary is just KILLING it here.
Such cool grooves... trademark phrasing and tone, of course but
the thing that amazes me about Gary is that... he just keeps
getting better and even more interesting with every release!
There seems to be no end to his creativity..
I cannot praise this one enough.. I just loved it and it WILL
live on my iPhone and get a LOT of love on those long drives in between
gigs and on the plane...
This is one of those discs you will want to play for your lesser informed friends and say, "check THIS out...".
