Fresh Cut Collective, comprised
of seven artists with extensive histories with other Milwaukee bands, play
music live that otherwise would be presented using either pre-recorded sounds
or a combination of that and, say, a couple of live players. This album is live
music restoration, taking music back from otherwise programmed stuff and
playing in unified and startling new ways. It turns what otherwise would be the
dead sound of electronic gizmos at work into live performance.
Having already made an impact
on the local scene in concert, it is now time to have it on compact disc in 11
tracks of music that capture living music again after hip-hop’s mechanical
demise. No machines are running.
These musicians are pacing the
rim of a new idiom that sounds improvised but is not, sounds programmed but is
not and sounds like a fresh cut at collective artistry that is dance,
narrative, tumbling and contemplative, and shaking bone tune mania instead of
sampling tone misery.
Debut album release party: May 29 at Mad Planet; free albums with cover charge of $10, and five other bands on the bill.
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"otherwise"
Fresh Cut Collective is an Otherwise not Alternative group: their sound is beyond the usual alternative into an otherwise unusual, unexposed musical realm. Â
This reviewer gets it and unknowingly so does the commentator. Â Â
Though this review is favorable, I do not think it does justice to what these guys actually do!
The review posits innovative composition/performance that is audible even on an album. Â This does considerable aesthetic justice to Fresh Cut Collective. Â Â Â