Andre Canniere Group: Forward Space - review

(Whirlwind)Andre Canniere is a versatile young New York trumpeter, jazz/classical crossover composer and film-score writer who moved to London in 2008. This is his first UK recording, with local musicians. Listeners to the music of Tim Berne, or Steves Coleman, Lehman or even Reich will recognise the method in these repeating motifs and accumulating rhythm patterns – but Canniere also has a rocker's enthusiasm for fierce backbeats, distorted guitars and bendy synths. Structure wins out over fl...

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