Wayne Shorter saxophone b. Michael Brecker saxophone, tenor - How we rate: our writers tend to review music they like within their preferred genres. Learn more about our star rating system. Showcase Buy Now. Featured Albums. Shop Amazon. Jazz Vocals Get more of a good thing Our weekly newsletter highlights our top stories and includes your local jazz events calendar. Connect Welcome! Advertise Rates and Options Place Order. Featured Albums.
Jimmie Vaughan guitar. Shop Amazon. Jazz Vocals Get more of a good thing Our weekly newsletter highlights our top stories and includes your local jazz events calendar. Connect Welcome! Advertise Rates and Options Place Order. Sign in Sign up Email address. Password Reset your password Click the eye to show your password. This is a jazz music website—spammers will be deleted. Membership has its privileges. Learn more. Probably the saxiest album in the world! Enter saxophonist extraordinaire Karsten Vogel of Burnin Red Ivanhoe and Secret Oyster fame: Robin C Taylor is back in strong form as the sole songwriter with a bunch of King Crimson'esque tracks that Vogel's saxes lend great support in the vein of the early sax based period of King Crimson.
Yet, 'Experimental Health' also encompasses the later 80's Crimson and points towards a more Canterbury'ish style, perhaps best exemplified - to these ears - by the Andrew Latimer Camel anyone? Whatever, Taylor's Universe are back with the trio form consisting of Karsten Vogel, Robin C Taylor and Rasmus Grosell drums, percussion at the core relegating Marsfeldt on keys to a sideman.
Grosell excellently adds heavier and punchier drums to the proceedings which combines with the heavier guitar work mainly done by Taylor himself but also by the returning sideman Henning Plannthin on two tracks to end up with a rockier album.
Kim Menzer also of Burnin Red Ivanhoe fame enhances two of the tracks with his flute, trombone and tenor sax to provide a more eclectic mix than previously. While the debut combined sax and trumpet and the followup concentrated on trumpet, the third release by Taylor's Universe 'Experimental Health' seems to take the logic step to only employ sax - and to great effect social review comments Review Permalink Posted Friday, October 18, Review this album Report Review Review by kev rowland Special Collaborator Honorary Reviewer.
There are only four songs on the album, with a total length of forty-six minutes, but one is never sure exactly what is going to happen on the musical journey. Jakob Mygind again provides a sterling performance on various saxophones, while the guitars of John Sund and Robin cut through dynamically. For sheer listening pleasure this has to be one of my favourite albums from the Danish master, it's great to have him back!
Taylor's Universe have been creating and providing progressive rock fans with high quality and mainly instrumental progressive rock for close to a generation at this point. Just about any of the albums merits a check by those fond of innovative, instrumental progressive rock, and this latest one may well be the one that has the broadest general appeal among them.
An artist well worth investigating, and this particular album comes across as a very good place to start exploring the vast catalogue of this Danish band. Robin brings in the right people for the right job, so a song may just feature him and Claus, while another has Karsten on bass clarinet, Jakob on soprano sax and Carsten on baritone and well as Finn, Thomas, Robin and Klaus to provide a meaty complex sound.
The use of a MiniMoog as the main keyboards provides a distinct style to the overall sound, which as always is complex and constructed in such a way that the tangents always make complete musical sense. Three different singers provide the wordless vocals, but many of the songs are completely instrumental, and when the voices are used it is always for an effect? It is relaxing, it is interesting, it is melodic and can be challenging, yet as with all of Robin's releases one is all the richer for having heard it.
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