3. "Ghost Rhythms - "Carlotta Valdes"" In response to Reply # 0
I don't think I'd heard this band before, but I stumbled on their Madeleine album and was really struck by this tune. No Youtube link, but you can hear it (and the rest of the album) on Bandcamp:
"Carlotta Valdes" is a long track with a lot of build and release, build and release --- starts with a scattered disjointed rhythm that breaks into a sort of latin-ish rhythm and melody, and from there it just has this really delightful, almost proggish structure and color, often unpredictable. The length of the tune (15 mins) gives the musicians a lot of room to work out and mess around with improv, and to develop some real tension, too. It's also on Rdio and (I'd assume) Spotify.
Album as a whole is too long and gets a little cloying at time, but I realy like what they're doing generally...
I'm sure I've been sleeping on A. Brown, but my eyes have been opened now.
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