Brekky Boy review: Forget solos, let s tie some knots in the rhythms
Brekky Boy review: Forget solos, let s tie some knots in the rhythms
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JOHN SHAND
One moment the wave-like, arpeggiated piano melodies are the stuff of dreams – or ambient minimalism, for the more pragmatic. The next moment the rhythm section gate-crashes the reverie so violently that what s being played seems not just a different piece, but a different idiom. As with much current music of interest, pianist/composer Taylor Davis s approach to composition defies pigeonholing. More unusually, it also makes you smile.
Few greater joys exist than hearing something that surprises the hell out of you – like music did when you were 16. Brekky Boy does that. What Davis, bassist Rob Hamilton and drummer Liam Hogan have contrived is not without precedent, of course: the Bad Plus, Esbjorn Svensson Trio, Phronesis and Nik Bartsch s Ronin are all precursors, if not necessarily influences. Immediately sett