Mehliana - Dreaming Of Dragons
Thursday, January 23, 2014
If jazz artists covering Radiohead songs has become something of a cliché today, then so has pianists being compared to Brad Mehldau, such is the influence he’s had on reshaping the art of the trio.
His new electrified duo project, Mehliana, is therefore going to come as a shock to devotees of his rarified acoustic piano work, as he and whirling groove-maestro drummer Mark Guiliana whip up a funkified prog-edged storm of squidgy vintage synths and cutting-edge beats. In a revealing interview with Selwyn Harris, Mehldau talks about mixing up the 1970s synth sounds of Hancock, Zawinul and Zappa with noir-ish Beat poetry and channeling destructive human impulses into a new dreamlike reality
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