get lost in the groove
5
By clearsaint
don't remember how i got onto this cd - never heard of molvaer before, but am glad i did. excellent! as other reviewers have pointed out, although this sort of a style that fuses several genres has been around for years, it's fair to warn jazz fans that this hardly qualifies as what is thought of as jazz. mind you, miles davis, in the late sixties-early seventies, did work that was often similar to this and probably would have sounded even more so if he'd had access to modern electronic instruments. certainly his leadership within a band has inspired molvaer - short bursts of trumpet, as if to point the way, then let the cohorts go wild over the motif and take it in all directions; the bass (probably sadly for the bassist) maintains a solid groove that hardly ever changes. but if, rather than jazz, you're into electronica/techno/ambient/trip-hop - then this has no surprises for you except the surprise of how fresh, excellent, and top-notch it is. meditative music to which you can easily go dreaming with your headphones on. only jarring detail is that the selections are often parts of a larger jam, and are broken suddenly at an arbitrary point. otherwise, stellar.
