“Highly experimental, with one foot solidly in the RIO camp and the other in outer space, Astro Can Caravan is an unconventional mix of large ensemble post-Sun Ra cosmic jazz, Magma-influenced Euro-fusion and Herbie Hancock/Miles Davis-styled avant-jazz funk. The 20 members of ACC (most of whom are apparently Finnish) all display a consummate musicianship and a keen awareness of the intricacies of ensemble playing throughout the ten tracks on 21st Century Drifting Episode, and in the process virtually create a new sub-genre one might call “big band space rock.” The uncanny mesh of horns (trumpet, trombone), winds (sax, oboe, clarinet), guitar, bass, synthesizer and four percussionists, in addition to being unusual when transposed to the context of space rock, creates some undeniably astounding altered states of consciousness if listened to for extended periods of time. The more overtly Arkestra-influenced pieces (“De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium” and “Kohoutek”) are brilliant, if not wholly original, exercises in solar jazz, in some ways extending, though not surpassing, the experiments in cacophony and atonalism that Sun Ra pioneered on Heliocentric Worlds. But ACC is quite capable of rocking the house, too, as both “Meteor Shower Geel” and “Mad Oracle” show. The up-tempo pace allows for some dynamic jamming where the synthesizers and saxes literally race each other as if they were on some intergalactic speedway. Imagine if Sun Ra’s Arkestra were composed of members of Amon Duul II and Can – 21st Century Drifting Episode is the kind of album he would’ve done. Like most “difficult’ music, you’ll have to listen to it at repeated intervals in order to truly appreciate the thorough-going nonconformist approach that Astro Can Caravan adopts – especially on a piece like “The Scale of Anubis” – but rest assured that 21st Century Drifting Episode will clear out the cob webs in your CD collection and will probably find a place of distinction there in the near future.”
Astro Can Caravan es una banda finlandesa que se forma en 2001 por Otto Eskelinen, Pharaoh Pirttikangas, Tomi Kosonen y Tuomas Eriksson. Su estilo es un avant-garde jazz del más original y novedoso que se haya creado. Como una orquesta jazzística de más de 20 músicos, la instrumentación es increíble: variedad de saxos, algunas trompetas, un par de clarinetes, muchas percusiones, oboe, acordeón, piano, pero además instrumentos eléctricos: guitarra, bajo, órgano y sintetizador. El resultado es el jazz más experimental y menos convencional al que jamás me he enfrentado, de por sí la armonía no está nada descuidada, y por otro lado, mientras que los vientos aportan todo el componente jazzístico-melódico, el órgano nos dibuja momentáneamente algunas figuras del blues, pero lo más interesante es que esto lo intersectan con inteligencia y gran habilidad con secciones electrónicas de sintetizador y efectos en la guitarra eléctrica, pero sin hacer abuso de esto último
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Muiscos 2010:
Otto Eskelinen – Woodwinds, Farfisa, Samples, Perx
Pharaoh Pirttikangas – Guitar, Perx, Keys
Tomi Kosonen – Saxes, Perx
Joakim Berghäll – Saxes, FX
Hepa Halme- Saxes, Perx
Tuomas Eriksson – Trombone, FX
Erno Haukkala- Trombone, FX
Tuomo Kuure – Bass
Rasmus Pailos – Drums
Musicos Antiguos:
Torsti Tuovinen – Perx
JP Hautalampi – Perx
Veli-Pekka Parkkinen – Clarinet
Jere Nivukoski – Perx
Eki Joutseno – Perx
Teemu Mäenpää – Perx
Risto Yli-Härsilä – Perx
Jaakko Lukkarinen – Perx
Niko Votkin – Drums
Simo Laihonen- Drums
Emil Luukkonen – Keys
Tapani Varis – Bass, Saxes, FX
Arvi Hasu – Bass
Jape Karjalainen – Bass
Antti Lötjönen – Bass
Artturi Taira – Saxes
Suvi Pappi – Clarinet
Jarkko Pellikka – Trumpet
Samuli Peltoniemi – Trumpet
Eero Savela -Trumpet
Henna Karhunen – Oboe
Ilmari Pohjola – Trombone
Werneri Pohjola – Trumpet
Joonas Hytti – Trumpet, Euphonium
Pauli Lyytinen – Saxes, Perx
Pentti Dassum – Guitar, FX
1. Helios Universal (4:19)
2. Mohenjo – Daro (5:18)
3. First Astral Movement (6:05)
4. Dumuzi (6:24)
5. Second Astral Movement (5:00)
6. Baia (5:24)
7. Third Astral Movement (4:39)
8. Nile (10:49)
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