multumult: Deeper Kind of Yellow Blue
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"We are a strange tribe without houses. Our animals have inappropriate colors and their milk sometimes drains from the sky. Like white rain.
Sometimes we gather in the sockets around the sacred fire and make sounds happen; it's the gift that we'll leave to this world. The shaman's dream is the illusion of illusions. Like rainy white." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Limited Edition of 100 CDs in hand-made & numbered paper gatefolds designed by Pat Kiout Productions +/or High-Quality Download in any format (FLAC recommended). 11 tracks, 46'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Călin Torsan – clarinet, fluier, ocarina, voice Vasile Gherghel – bass guitar Marius Achim – NI Maschine Recorded live in autumn 2017 by Vasile Gherghel. Mastering by Vali OzanaVMAT2 (Bárðr StudioLab). Artwork design by moody alien. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . released December 1, 2018. ℗ & © Thirsty Leaves Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.multumult.ro |
REVIEWS.
"In 2018, multumult looks quite different from the previous review that I dedicated to versatile Călin Torsan's - the avant-garde of the Romanian musical avant-garde - project. The project has been drastically reformatted, now with Gherghel Vasile Cristian (bass) & Achim Marius (percussion) and the album sounds more cordial than the anarchism of the debut. [...] The irreducible noise-art with which the project intimidated its audiences in the beginning has now become an accompaniment to a psychedelic ethno-jazz, conceived around wind instruments. The anthropological-shamanic study of the project is more noticeable in the titles Souls of Ancestors, Smoke Rises to the Clouds, etc, only the sound is no longer disintegrated to its atomic properties. On the other hand, Deeper Kind of Yellow Blue sounds like sharing an Ayahuka therapy in a Bucharest apartment. [...]"
Aron Biro for Dilema Veche (in romanian)
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"[...] And then it pours in. "Dance of a Yellow Elephant" is decorated with a distinctive bass riff, above which hovers a jazz cloud, pregnant with a kind of Balkan lament. Which creates a tension that the listener likes to succumb to. In "Tribe of the Blue-Skinned" there is a distinctive melody, an electronically mutated flute and a relaxed, straightforward rhythm. "Green Bird in Colorless Flight" is a fresh briskness with a leading solo chorus of the flute. The eight-minute composition "Smoke Rises to the Clouds" is breathtakingly elaborate: tense rhythms, electrified clarinet, on the contrary, soaringly lyrical, in the end it sounds surprisingly something like a medieval dance party. The following "Souls Of Ancestors" evokes human voices drowned in mud (oh yes, the voices of ancestors!), Fortunately replaced by shamanic singing, then a repetitive rhythmic stream and the sound of an ethnic flute. In the solo, Torsan gets closer to the soulfulness of Eric Dolphy's expression, that's a real treat! At the end the elephant dances again, for a change blue - "Dance of a Blue Elephant"…"
Jan Hocek for JazzPort.cz (in czech)
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"In 2018, multumult looks quite different from the previous review that I dedicated to versatile Călin Torsan's - the avant-garde of the Romanian musical avant-garde - project. The project has been drastically reformatted, now with Gherghel Vasile Cristian (bass) & Achim Marius (percussion) and the album sounds more cordial than the anarchism of the debut. [...] The irreducible noise-art with which the project intimidated its audiences in the beginning has now become an accompaniment to a psychedelic ethno-jazz, conceived around wind instruments. The anthropological-shamanic study of the project is more noticeable in the titles Souls of Ancestors, Smoke Rises to the Clouds, etc, only the sound is no longer disintegrated to its atomic properties. On the other hand, Deeper Kind of Yellow Blue sounds like sharing an Ayahuka therapy in a Bucharest apartment. [...]"
Aron Biro for Dilema Veche (in romanian)
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"[...] And then it pours in. "Dance of a Yellow Elephant" is decorated with a distinctive bass riff, above which hovers a jazz cloud, pregnant with a kind of Balkan lament. Which creates a tension that the listener likes to succumb to. In "Tribe of the Blue-Skinned" there is a distinctive melody, an electronically mutated flute and a relaxed, straightforward rhythm. "Green Bird in Colorless Flight" is a fresh briskness with a leading solo chorus of the flute. The eight-minute composition "Smoke Rises to the Clouds" is breathtakingly elaborate: tense rhythms, electrified clarinet, on the contrary, soaringly lyrical, in the end it sounds surprisingly something like a medieval dance party. The following "Souls Of Ancestors" evokes human voices drowned in mud (oh yes, the voices of ancestors!), Fortunately replaced by shamanic singing, then a repetitive rhythmic stream and the sound of an ethnic flute. In the solo, Torsan gets closer to the soulfulness of Eric Dolphy's expression, that's a real treat! At the end the elephant dances again, for a change blue - "Dance of a Blue Elephant"…"
Jan Hocek for JazzPort.cz (in czech)
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