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Blast is a Dutch ensemble, form in 1989, that takes as inspiration the
orchestral Frank Zappa
of Burnt Weeny Sandwich (Bizarre, 1970) or the later
Orchestral Favourites (Discreet, 1979).
Frank Crjins (guitar) is the main composer, while
Edward Capel (sax and clarinet) and Dirk Bruinsma (sax) lead a line-up that
can include up to ten elements.
Puristsirup (Blast, 1992) was their first release.
Wire-Stitched Ears (Cuneiform, 1995) is a little more dissonant and a
little more improvised than Zappa's works. The drawback is that it lacks
Zappa's sense of humour, that helped digest even the most abstruse scores.
Stringy Rugs (Cuneiform, 1997) is tighter, jazzier and closer to
British progressive-rock (the Henry Cow school), thanks to time signatures and
cerebral counterpoint.
The austere compositional style that was maturing on the second album blooms on
A Sophisticated Face (Cuneiform, 1999), especially in
multi-part suites like Visceral Ooze (worthy of the
chamber music of the avantgarde),
Metrolodic (with echoes of Anthony Braxton's saxophone improvisations
and a duet between pompous horns and frantic percussions),
Transversal (Henry Cow-style metamorphoses but with more cacophony) and
Emety Neprac (a surreal scherzo that slides into a languid adagio
in an unusually cinematic manner).
Melodies have all but disappeared. Blast's kaleidoscopic sound is targeting an
abstract nirvana of musical gestures.
Altrastrata (ReR, 2003)
As Nowhere As Anywhere (FMR, 2007)
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