Mumpbeak
Mumpbeak
RareNoise
Records ***1/2
This might have you jumping around the place, dignity permitting. Infectious and highly creative prog from the off on opener ‘Biscuit’ as Bill Laswell and Shanir Blumenkranz collide with the modified pedals and clavinet of Naked Truth’s Roy Powell as King Crimson “double trio” drummer Pat Mastelotto, who’s also in Naked Truth, ratchets up the tension. Another electric bassist, again from Naked Truth, Lorenzo Feliciati, teams instead with Laswell on ‘Nork’, and in the main feature of the album,‘Oak’, Mastelotto’s fellow Crimsonite bassist Tony Levin joins Laswell and Blumenkranz for a jaw-dropping bass summit. Gloriously asymmetrical Powell’s star rises all the time, as Laswell in the mix makes everything, irrespective of the music’s complexity and overdub wizardry, sound natural.
Released on 28 November