Basically somewhat similar to avant-prog... for example microtonal worlds in e.g. Chimera, and some interesting dark smooth waters sound surfaces, a bit reminding me of
Annie Gosfield kind of combined with some chamber jazz, and some a bit calmer pieces...
Also, while the music is, I'd say, complex, it's not at all hard to listen to; it's
immediately enjoyable. Although I would argue that most things that are harder to listen to are not actually complex, but more like dispersed; this is tight, but not in mindless technical show-off although I'd get that view too. But here the music flows great, it's few connected fluid layers but with multiple half-penetrating beams in various constellations. This is even kind of more like...
Zolo by being so playful. And energetic, but it's also atmospheric in mysterious ways.
Elegant and somehow... eluding... use of melodic instruments, although sometimes there's too much typical "jazz" noodling with the brass (I'm rather biased here because I just don't generally like it), and - fortunately not much - oddly kind of repetitive and a bit swinging sharp rhythms kind of resembling jazz rap, spy jazz, some cool jazz... but it's catchy anyway. .... So many parts of the style here are not my absolute favourites, but the way they are composed is simply too great to ignore.
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on the Sam-O-Meter.
