Altered - Altered
Reviewed by Jade Abbott
Altered is an instrumental 3 piece jazz band (Bassist, John Flitcraft; Guitarist, Jeff Miley and Drummer, Steve Holmes) consisting of some funky bass, which is the main focus of most of the pieces {To my bass-trained ears anyway), paired with some sweet jazz guitar and wicked jazz drumming. In basically all the songs on the album there is a solo for each instrument, which displays the excellent skill of all 3 artists. Their use of contrasting dynamics and crazy rhythms creates a lot of interest
The coolest thing they do is completely synching the bass and guitar. Where they both play the same complicated melodic pattern at exactly the same time! It is technically perfect
I can’t say I could listen to it all day, as it is quite heavy to comprehend all at once. And the random rhythms can be quite an earful. The other criticism I have is that the sound doesn’t change once through the entire album – each instrument holds exactly the same emotion in every song. So to say it’s a little monotonous - intense upbeat jazz all the way through. I’ve been told that’s what Jazz is meant to be like on first listen but I can’t quite get into that!
But nevertheless I enjoyed listening to it and there are is some bits of really soulful bass in it and if you dig jazz bass then you’ll really enjoy it!
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