The 3rd Clean Feed album from this Portuguese band of unusual orchestration and intentions that cross jazz and rock idioms, from the trio of Sergio Carolino on tuba, Mario Delgado on guitar, and Alexandre Frazao on drums, with rapid fire attacks and tight compositional moments balanced by wonderful open, sonic moments, surprising with a cover of King Crimson's "Starless".
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2019 Country: Portugal Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Recorded at Estudio Vale de Lobos, in Almargem do Bispo, Portugal, in June, 2018, by Pedro Vidal.
"At their third album, Portuguese band TGB can't be defined anymore by the unusual instrumentation of a tuba, a guitar and a drum set. An idiosyncratic music comes with it, "without frontiers and unconquerable", as Sergio Carolino, Mario Delgado and Alexandre Frazao say themselves. They mixed jazz, rock, folk, country and more in ways impossible to categorize like "fusion". TGB expanded it so much, and with such unique results, that they blew the label in question, inventing their own "space of interception between contemporary creativity and critical thought".
And they do make a point with that: in III there's an explicit revisitation of the "hidden universe" of the Seventies rock, jazz, jazz-rock and rock-jazz bands, which is also an analyze of their own identities, individually and as a group. The consequences are marvelous, taking the TGB concept many steps further. No, it doesn't sound as a psychotherapy session - there's only some psychedelic moments. The music communicates with us easily, full of good rhythmic and melodic arguments, the kind you can even sing in the bath. If there was a deconstruction of materials and an evaluation of references in the process, the trio assembled their conclusions in consistent and coherent ways. Carolino's tuba multiphonics are a wonder, Delgado's guitar pyrotechnics don't cease to surprise and Frazao's drumming motions keep us wanting for more.
An inevitable question arises: what the f***k is happening in Portugal, explaining such incredible music?"-Clean Feed