The Bad Plus – bassist Reid Anderson, pianist Ethan Iverson, and drummer David King – have a well-earned reputation for pushing the limits on what is expected of a piano-bass-drums trio. The past 15 years have seen the genre-smashing band create a distinctive and original repertoire of inventive and exciting original music, along with iconoclastic covers of artists as divergent as Nirvana and Neil Young, Aphex Twin and Ornette Coleman.
![]() The Bad Plus – Inevitable Western (2014)
It’s in the opening moments of “I Hear You,” the first track on Inevitable Western: the mercurial, mysterious, yet utterly musical sense of adventure that lies at the heart of the Bad Plus’ sound. After recording the rigorous, mathematically challenging score for Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring — released only six months prior to this — one can almost hear relief in the trio’s return to its own universe. These nine tracks are equally divided compositionally among bassist Reid Anderson, pianist Ethan Iverson, and drummer Dave King. The bassist’s aforementioned opener is a seemingly simple lyric stated by the piano but given a slightly quirky yet nearly processional tilt in its meter as Anderson illustrates the time as the drummer’s syncopated accents add drama and humor. King’s “God Prisms Incorporated” is a marvelous cut-time jazz illustration of post-rock song form. Iverson’s pulsing chord statement rides atop the minimal melody, offset by the rhythm section’s inventive interplay. A piano solo commences halfway through, stretching the notion of time, though the tune never quite abandons its interlocking grooves. Iverson’s “Self Serve” is a knotty, almost swinging post-bop tune, with gorgeous harmonic statements by Anderson. The mutant classicism in the bassist’s “You Will Lose All Fear” feels like it was simultaneously influenced by both Charles Ives and Aaron Copland. Iverson’s solo, full of bright arpeggios and forceful dynamic chords, is adorned by King’s hyperactive rolls and fills. The set’s longest piece is the drummer’s “Adopted Highway.” Introduced by a shimmering crash cymbal and a single piano chord, all three members engage in measured, dissonant stop-and-start counterpoint. Iverson rumbles along the lower and middle registers as Anderson’s pizzicato lines exhort King to use his brushes aggressively in response. The tune unfolds very gradually, as free-flowing improvisation alternates with intricately written lines, building to a taut climax before gradually whispering to a close. Iverson’s “Mr. Now” is almost funky in its intro. His sharp, labyrinthine head is offered in short statements with King playing double time and Anderson holding the center. It becomes a meaty, hard-driving exercise in modern post-bop, as all three members engage in spirited dialogue. King delivers a bracing solo in the final third. The closing title number, by the pianist, seamlessly melds jazz, classical, blues, modal, and great American saloon-style music in dexterous and lyrical phrases and rhythmic frames. Inevitable Western is a reminder that the Bad Plus are not a “piano trio” in any ordinary sense of the term, but a unit of strikingly different voices acting as one in expanding the boundaries of jazz.
Vitalization, performed by Nana Mizuki, is the opening theme of Senki Zesshō Symphogear G.It was released on July 31, 2013. An extended version, Vitalization -Aufwachen Form-, was released in the album 'SUPERNAL LIBERTY' on April 16, 2014.The Aufwachen Form plays at critical points in the season. Feel free to tell me of upcoming releases and I will add them here. Old releases in spoiler 5/8 Tomomi Kasai - Mine (single) Hoshino Gen - Gag (single) Mayn - Run Real Run (single) 5/15 KAT-TUN - Face To Face (single) T.M. Revolution x Nana Mizuki - Preserved Roses (single) Naoto Inti Raymi - Nic.
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01 – I Hear You 02 – Gold Prisms Incorporated 03 – Self Serve 04 – You Will Lose All Fear 05 – Do It Again 06 – Epistolary Echoes 07 – Adopted Highway 08 – Mr. Now 09 – Inevitable Western
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Great Activity is the sixth studio album from J-pop star and Japanese voice actorNana Mizuki.
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