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so what do you call it? it's punk rock and bartok filtered through the noisy gate of new jazz within a pop-song structure, and a great way to initiate the virgins into the joys of instrumental noise, or reaffirm the commitment of those already converted to the cause." >la weekly cut play an uncompromising, honest music, without attitude and beyond the confines of the standard genre pigeonholing...like the groups from which they draw their inspiration--the pop group, fred frith's massacre, dna, the minutemen--so too does cut's musical panorama extend beyond fashion and trends. cut: rock hard songs which leave no room for abberations of the imagination. they provoke, cut and slam it all down." the great years of the new york no wave era live on with the trio cut and their cd popular music that will live forever. with drums, guitar, sax, clarinet, metal percussion and some sampling birger löhl, gregor hotz and jason kahn create an interesting mix of jazz, rock and improvised music. drummer jason kahn should be familiar to some readers as he once drummed with the popular sst jazzrock band universal congress of--where here jazzrock refers to something other than the usual unspeakable fusion which reviewer bussmer normally reviews here. |