T.R.A.M. - Tosin Abasi side project

[travis bickle]

i love hearing this complaint about this release being too dissonant. listen to penderecki, or bartok, now that's dissonant!!! haha.

with that said, i was mildy impressed with this release upon the first listen. but now that i've played it a million times, im in love. eric moore is a BEAST!!!!!!!!!!! i hope they tour.

 

[celticelk]

i love hearing this complaint about this release being too dissonant. listen to penderecki, or bartok, now that's dissonant!!! haha.

Or the majority of bebop-and-afterward jazz. So long as it's not "smooth jazz," which seems to want to surrender its courage for the safety of being non-offensive.

 

[spawnofthesith]

i love hearing this complaint about this release being too dissonant. listen to penderecki, or bartok, now that's dissonant!!! haha.

.

Or anything by John Coltrane after he started doing acid

 

[GSingleton]

i love hearing this complaint about this release being too dissonant. listen to penderecki, or bartok, now that's dissonant!!! haha.

with that said, i was mildy impressed with this release upon the first listen. but now that i've played it a million times, im in love. eric moore is a BEAST!!!!!!!!!!! i hope they tour.

umm...I do, have, and have performed various pieces by those composers. Penderecki is famous for sound clusters EX. Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima. I enjoy dissonant music. It is more the timbre of the woodwinds and the color they add to those dissonant tones I have a hard time digesting.

 

[0 Xero 0]

I finally got my preorder but it was worth the wait! I got extra posters from merch connection for waiting so long and a hoodie instead of the t shirt for no extra charge

 

[glassmoon0fo]

^Fuck that! mine came in late too and I got a ripped poster and a shirt 2 sizes too small >=( some bullshit, this is!

 

[matt397]

Nice to see this.....


coming to fruition (3:30)

 

[0 Xero 0]

^Fuck that! mine came in late too and I got a ripped poster and a shirt 2 sizes too small >=( some bullshit, this is!

Well I complained to the people at merchconnection and asked them what was going on. I was really polite which might have helped... ? I'm sure they get messages all the time about preorders and where they are and whatnot. Mine came late because the USPS in all of the intelligence within that agency decided to randomly hold my mail ¬__¬

Tell them about your problems. They will probably try to help if they can.

 

[Goatchrist]

Mine came late too.

Listening to it right now, really really digging it so far!

Moore is an amazing drummer, blows me away, so much groove and feeling, he soooo black!
Of course all the other musicians are amazing too!

 

[Cabinet]

HAAS Kicker is easily my favorite track on the album.
I love the 7/8 groove in it

 

[MF_Kitten]

I recognize some of these lines! I've seen Tosin play them in videos from NAMM and interviews.

IT sounds great! AAL is Jazz As Fuck, sure. But this is JAZZ!

 

[thelarrinator]

Animals as Leaders + Mars Volta + Suicidal Tendencies?

Did someone just divide by zero?

it would appear so!

 

[technomancer]

I absolutely love this album, my only complaint is it needs to be longer

Hopefully this ends up being an ongoing project

 

[GSingleton]

I think you all mean free form jazz. Especially with all the atonal elements in the sax solos.

 

[Blasphemer]

I think you all mean free form jazz. Especially with all the atonal elements in the sax solos.

No. TRAM is nothing like this:

THIS is freeform jazz

 

[brector]

IT sounds great! AAL is Jazz As Fuck, sure. But this is JAZZ!

Shh, don't let celticelk hear this. J/K

BTW - celticelk, do you post on Gizmodo? I saw a post on there today with your avatar from here

Edit - and I am really enjoying this release, glad I preordered

-Brian

 

[CyborgSlunk]

Nice to see this.....


coming to fruition (3:30)

or nice to see this...



becoming this:

 

[MF_Kitten]

or nice to see this...



becoming this:

my thoughts exactly, especially on that second song. so damn cool.

 

[Cyanide_Anima]

Yeah, I remember those parts too. I too like how they got incorporated into the music. This album is great. There is so much cool stuff going on, and it's all over the place in a very good way.

 

[nojyeloot]

Funny: Now that I've fully absorbed Lingua Franca, AAL's Weightless (purchased prior to) is substantially more interesting to me.

I now love it (Weightless), but in a totally different way (mood) than the self titled album. I guess I just had to get used to the lack of Misha's influence in AAL's writing style - which is what immediately made me love the first album.

More simply put - Thanks to you...

...I now like you