Last fall we stamped a Band To Watch designation on Fievel Is Glauque, the duo of Brooklyn avant-garde veteran Zach Phillips (Blanche Blanche Blanche, Grendel’s Mother, Perfect Angels) and Belgium-based singer Ma Clément. That band’s excellent Flaming Swords album brimmed with a chaotic yet metropolitan spirit, like Stereolab making a jazz album that moved swiftly but occasionally pounded with ogre-like aggression. Today another Phillips project has emerged with an album exploring adjacent sonic territory.
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Multi-instrumentalist Zach Phillips and singer Ma Clément craft alluring jazz fusion songs in miniature. It is heady but not stuffy, precise but not rigid, dense but not cluttered.
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