BUSHMAN’S REVENGE

All The Better For Seeing You IS IT JAZZ?

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Slow-burning 11th album from Oslo jazz-rock trio. Bushman’s Revenge’s 20-year career has seen a variety of shifts in emphasis and direction. Earlier releases tended to load gnarly guitars and take aim at a number of rapidly riffing jazz-rock targets with unhinged glee. More recently, however, things seem somewhat calmer in the Bushman camp. Much like 2019’s Et Hån Mot Overklassen, here guitarist Even Helte Hermansen’s lyrical approach takes the spotlight, wherein his plangent tones are coaxed from a velvet cushion of reverb. Occasionally evoking the crystalline sheen of Bill Frisell or Jakob Bro’s melodious threading, his elegant runs have a sunny airiness that resonates warmth. As a trio, they give each other plenty of room with bassist Rune Nergaard hovering between the whispering static patterns of drummer Gard Nilssen’s brushes.…

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