I Like to Sleep: Daymare

Rating: ★★★

Record and Artist Details

Musicians:

Amund Storløkken Åse (vib)
Nicolas Leirtrø (baritone g)
øyvind Leite (d)

Label:

Rune Grammafon

June/2020

Media Format:

CD

Catalogue Number:

RCD2214

RecordDate:

2019

Young musicians can soar with a rising current of innovation beneath their wings, playing direct and instinctive music, if not always complete in its assertions, as is the case with this new trio.

Not yet out of jazz college, the thrust of I Like To Sleep's album Daymare has a drawling and fuzzed-out baritone guitar in league with the vivid vibraphone of Amund Storløkken Áse, and this pairing throbs with potential.

Spirited and imaginative, Storløkken ?

se is as able to pull out an explorative solo as readily as a catchy melody, but is most magnetic when relishing the seductive, cool tones of his instrument as in, ‘Playing with Fire’. The opening track ‘Beyond Bedmonsters and No Sleep’ is a 10-minute narrative; tension and restraint put a soft spotlight onto the vibraphone's resonance; it is enticing. Rhythmically it switches into a pounding run, the low end guitar and banging drums chasing as if in a 1960s TV cop series. Storløkken ?

se rises to the challenge with a quick-thinking passage, dashing here, jumping there, before everything crashes, leaving the delicate opening motifs to repeat to fade.

At times Leirtrø's guitar work with Leite's drumming reveal a youthful love of the hard stuff, embodying the fun of locking into rock charges. This can squish imaginative spaces and push the vibraphone too hard; here guitar and drums should be left to duet. Sometimes the band could seek out alternative rhythmic approaches that catch the ear off guard, but the title track showcases such future possibilities with a focus on textures that intensify in their pattern; cymbals are relentlessly tickled, the vibraphone repeats speedy note runs over and over, before the guitar electric-shocks their ‘daymare’.

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