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EVOLUTIONARY JASS BAND - What's Lost
MISSISSIPPI
LP // £10.99
JAZZ / RELATED
Released: Jun 2007
Catalogue Number: MR-012
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Coming from the same label responsible for the awesome collection of American folk music 'I Don't Feel at Home in this World Anymore 1927-1948' comes the latest release from Portland-based jazz explorers the Evolutionary Jass Band. The last we heard from them was in connection with Paul Dickow's Community Library imprint, and now they're back with this unusually lo-fi collection of Eastern European folk music, somewhere along the same lines as the recent Han Hungar Ensemble album on Leaf. Of course the jass is still there, especially on the second track 'Requiem for Andrew', but it's accompanied by rather liberally played fiddle, piano, brass and drums, in a way that suggests an Eastern European troupe somewhere scoring a flickering movie about the turmoil of a pretty young girl. You know the kind, they're usually on late night on Channel 4 (not those ones, you perverts) and they're often shot in one colour to enhance the emotional intensity. On the third track 'Lost in the Stars' we even get some vocals in on the mix, and then it makes sense why this should fit in with the rest of the Mississippi Records catalogue, this might be contemporary but you'd be mistaken for thinking it wasn't - there's nothing to tie this band to the modern world, and it's all the better for it. Hugely enjoyable stuff, and comes on CDR as well as vinyl for those of you who might like to listen on the move! Recommended listening.

• Tracks on EVOLUTIONARY JASS BAND - What's Lost:
• EVOLUTIONARY JASS BAND : 01
• EVOLUTIONARY JASS BAND : 02
• EVOLUTIONARY JASS BAND : 03

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