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FREENOISE

George Steeltoe Ensemble "Church of Yuh"

This is the music of time out for Shiva the Destroyer at once beautiful and terrible. All premonitions of this being 'free-jazz' are blasted away at the opening barrage of electronic distortion and abstract radio vocals make love with screaming saxes and frantic fast flow drums. Horror, beauty and fragility clashing and procreating in the first few minutes awakening the mind. I've only been out of bed 20mins and I'm alert and tense. The following lengthy tumble-along of all the group which includes bass, flute, trumpet, piano, tin can, keys and tone generator provides a fine backdrop for some blank staring while I slurp some tea and try and remember what the heck this world has to offer. Subtle rock influences can be detected (if subliminally) as I find my head nodding which suprisingly does not detract from the overall flavour. The passion rises to a peak but mellows out for a while on side 2 before some superb playing (esp. reeds) bring this brilliant release to a rousing finale. Yep this album is a perfect marriage of lively acoustic exploration, free(?) jazz and brave analogue noise that you'd expect from a collective of seasoned NY musicians on this punchy label. Yours for only ten bucks."