Efpi Records

Jan 7 2019

Best of 2018 #32: Anton Hunter – “Article XI”

 

There’s always the sense of a massive vision to this album, and it’s how Anton Hunter keeps the focus on the microcosm of the moment that cinches this recording as something special.  In my original write-up, I state that traversing this album is like a journey through the funhouse.  And while its lyricism, often absurd and capable of inciting tiny epiphanies, often does command center stage, the benefit of time slowly reveals that it’s the competing, complementary perspectives that is the true driving force… like watching simultaneous evolutions of worlds inside of worlds.

Released on Efpi Records.

Read more on Bird is the Worm.

Music from Manchester, UK.

Available at:  Bandcamp | Amazon

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Dec 10 2018

Album of the Day: “Article XI” by Anton Hunter

 

Artist:  Anton Hunter

Album: Article XI

Label:  Efpi Records

Style:  Suggested orchestra jazz/Covert experimental jazz

Favorite Track:  “Retaken”/”Innards of Atoms” (tie, or maybe I just adore how one feeds into the next)

Music from:  Manchester, UK

What I like about it:  It’s like getting lost in the funhouse.  The winding passages of lyricism, the warped melodicism that crystalizes into harmonic visages, the unpredictable changes of direction… it’s a controlled insanity that holds through every note of this recording.  I have never heard this album the same way twice.  Not even close.  Each time I play this recording (and, god, I’ve played it tons), inevitably I think to myself, wait, this isn’t how I remember it sounding before.  I can’t express sufficiently how much fun and enjoyment that inspires in me.

Extra notes:  The label, Efpi Records, only releases a couple albums per year, but without exception, they’re gold.

Your album personnel:  Anton Hunter (guitar), Sam Andreae (tenor sax), Simon Prince (tenor sax, flute), Mette Rasmussen (alto sax), Cath Roberts (baritone sax), Graham South, Nick Walters (trumpets), Seth Bennett, Richard Foote (trombones), Eero Tikkanen (bass) and Johnny Hunter (drums).

Available at:  Bandcamp | Amazon

Listen to more of the album on the artist’s Bandcamp page.

Be sure to check out the artist’s site.

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