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Audiophile Imports, LTD :: Group Projects :: BILL LASWELL/ RAOUL BJORKENHEIM/ MORGAN AGREN-BLIXT

::: BILL LASWELL/ RAOUL BJORKENHEIM/ MORGAN AGREN-BLIXT :::

BLIXT

2011 release. Blixt is the first release by a phenomenal new power trio of three seasoned, world class musicians. Their music touches on many aspects of the most creative history of the power trio in rock music; the unbelievable sounds wrested from normal instruments that the Jimi Hendrex Experience gave to the world, the singular freedom used by Guru Guru and the grafting of together of rock, progressive, jazz and punk that was pioneered by Massacre (and the group in which Bill pretty much began his career). If cream was the first guitar-led super group, Blixt it its present-day aftershock. Five decades on, the sound is heavier and darker, the mix of ingredients more transgressive, the origins of the musicians more global, and the harmonic and rhythmic palettes more complex. But at the core of both Cream and Blixt is an unholy marriage of rock and jazz, riffs and improv, the viscera and the cerebrum. And both bands, at their most confrontational, can peel the ears clean off your head. The three players contribute really nice, simple and powerful heads that the band use as a springboard for their powerful improvisations around the themes. Recorded almost completely live in the studio, the emphasis is on the spontaneity and great musicianship of the players. Raoul Bjorkenheim, guitar; Bill Laswell, bass & Morgan Agren, drums.