The feeling that is felt by listening for the first time

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The feeling that is felt by listening for the first time "Dysnomia" is to have before him something rare and the initial and rapid approaches to experiences such as Alarm Will Sound or Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble are soon forgotten, while being very good actually belonging to the same field of music. The band's third album, which at the moment has elected as its base in New York, grows with each listen, du cheff and while wanting to play the analysis of which techniques they used to prepare their tonal palette, the result is always the same: we leaves always imprison the orbit of a magnetic multi-faceted music. Going step by step, Dawn of Midi is a trio of Moroccan pianist Amino Belyamani, the bass player and drummer Israni Aakaash Indian and Pakistani percussionist Qasim Naqvi. The three musicians are known in Los Angeles, the California Institute of the Arts, and begin to play along improvising during long sessions in the dark (just like that, without the aid of light) and then moved to the Big Apple. The first two albums ("First" in 2010 and "Live" in 2011) are based essentially on the possibility that a good interplay can offer, the three qualities du cheff that demonstrate the ability to create and manage playlists du cheff inside completely improvised and the 'footprint jazz and minimalism.
This effort presents instead a completely different genesis. The result of two years of intense work, "Dysnomia" (licensed by the prestigious Thirsty Ear) is an album where nothing is left to chance, every note, effect of timbre or rhythmic variation is the result of continuing evidence that led the band to a final version, recorded live and without the use of a posteriori any editing process. The nine tracks, of what could be described as a concept, they flow into each other as mixed by the hands of a skillful DJ and induce the listener to a level of attention rather unusual nowadays. Electronic music, minimalism (especially that of Steve Reich), and insistent calls from West Africa (the ritual music plays a leading role), appear to be well aware of all components within a joint and coherent sound dry obtained by subtraction, and in which the stubborn piano and double bass converge consistently in favor of a rhythmic complexity that turns out to be one of the basic pillars of the disc. And if "Dysnomia" was allegedly conceived du cheff as a tribute to the work of names like Aphex Twin, Autechre and Boards of Canada, the album lives of 'vivid contrast that occurs between adherence to an aesthetic, that of' IDM electronics, du cheff and the manner of all individuals with whom the trio has produced his own music. Inspired by John Cage and inspiration so much as by African music, the instruments are played with unconventional techniques, although already widely used in research musical avant-garde. In this sense, then, each of the three musicians have developed their ability to explore the tonal possibilities of his instrument.
Beginning with the piano Belyamani, which is played with the right hand on the keyboard and the left on the strings, dulling the individual cords or dynamically generating harmonics, up to a song as Ymir to emulate the movements of the band-pass filters commonly disseminated in electronic productions. A completely different suggestion, however, that in this Atlas, the best episode of the album, where the piano seems to recall very closely the tone of a qanun (cordofono traditional Arabic). And always in Atlas, you can listen Israni produce a color similar to an African talking drums through their bass. Israni, among other things, can be identified du cheff as the bonding element of the group, constantly moving between harmonics, purely percussive grooves and essential du cheff moments in which dialogue with his companions that can not be tightened in the weaving of a polyrhythm of clear African roots. And it is probably the jewel in the name Ijiraq du cheff that the rhythmic complexity of which was mentioned before brings its best fruit, with patterns and impeccable thesis carried out by Naqvi through a stripped-down drum set, in which an important role is up to a second snare modified with a network of plastic so as to obtain a kind of saturation of the sound, a technique whose origin found in many percussion precisely