The Moss Project, Festival Pavilion Teepee. Tuesday 30th July 2013
Having already
checked out the Moss Project's excellent new album, I was really looking forward to this one. Moss also reminded me that I wrote his first ever gig review
here on the Ring Modulator back in 2007, but somehow it’s taken me this long to
catch another one of his gigs. Things have changed in lots of ways since
then it appears.
Freed cooked up
some groovy-wah guitar in the set opener, uplifted by the soaring long note vocal lines
from the ever-amazing Alice Zawadzki. We were then introduced to author
Lawrence Norfolk who read one of a number of writings inspired by the
Moss Project music. ‘Anniversary’ opened with some spiky tremolo guitar
and sparse violin over the beaten rumbles of Marek Dorcik’s drums. This
was soon followed by the repeating Reich’ish figure of ‘What Do You See
When You Close Your Eyes’. Zawadzki treated us to some even more soaring
violin doubled vocal lines pitched over the bands disjoint groove.
‘Freud and Jung Ride The Tunnel of Love’ proffered some enticing
abstract echo reverb guitar and dark violin tones. Once it got going it,
perhaps oddly, reminded me of Pink Floyd’s ‘Interstellar Overdrive’
before fully transforming into a rough and dangerous tempest.
The band finished with the precise and pushy angular phrases of ‘The Bubble’, Zawadzki and Freed lining up the lines admirably. The song’s strong chorus style hook whipped up some serious momentum, launching Freed into a bitingly angsty solo, followed apace with a Metheny-esque high register bass solo from Kevin Glasgow. This was a fine and refreshingly original set. The project’s writing is great and the band delivered with energy and passion.
You can listen to the new Moss Project album in full at the Babel Label Bandcamp page.
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