Fire! Below
Fire! Orchestra - Echoes [RLP3231 3LP NOR 2023 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC] Next up is a three album set in a limited pressing run which seems to be featuring on many end-of-year critics list. Sweden's Fire! Orchestra have been around for a while, this is their seventh album, however Echoes is going to have the biggest impact than any of their previous long players. Expanding to a sizable forty-three musician membership, their Echoes album is an expansive two hour long work of contemporary jazz, mixed in with passages of ambitious avantgarde, experimental free-jazz and modern progressive rock. Whilst this album should always be classified as jazz, it takes the genre further than any other jazz album in recent years, and possibly for years to come. I hear elements from twentieth century industrial music scattered within - there are parts of these records which Coil would have been proud of, however mix these in with influences of Ornette Coleman & Pharoah Saunders, and...