Bushman's Revenge: Jazz, Fritt Etter Hukommelsen

Rating: ★★★

Record and Artist Details

Musicians:

Rune Nergaard (b, org, toy p, perc, elec)
Gard Nilssen (d)
Even Helte Hermansen (g, perc, elec)

Label:

Rune Grammofon

October/2016

Catalogue Number:

RCD 2185

RecordDate:

2-3 May 2016

Over the last nine years, Norwegian three-piece Bushman's Revenge have blazed a trail into guitar power trio heaven, consolidating their reputation as a kind of 21st century Cream with a keen ear for the punchy cover version: past albums have seen them reinterpreting music by artists as diverse as Sonny Sharrock, Black Sabbath, Ornette Coleman and The Pixies. But for this eighth outing (with a title that translates as Jazz, From Memory), they've reined in the excesses and taken a step back to their jazz origins. Cover versions are still a factor, with a moody run through McCoy Tyner's modal classic ‘Contemplation’ and a softly mellifluous take on Albert Ayler's ‘Angels’ that builds to rolling thunder. But it's in the originals that a new, carefully reconstituted voice most clearly shines through. Guitarist Even Helte Hermansen's tone is delicately restrained on pieces like ‘Bo Marius’, mixing crystalline harmonics with deft whammy-bar bends while, on ‘Gamle Plata Til Arne’, he sidesteps jazz-rock entirely, arriving at a fresh, countrified twang that echoes Bill Frisell's work with underground doom merchants Earth.

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