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| B for Bang Katia Labèque : piano/rhodes David Chalmin : electric guitar & vocals Nicola Tescari : keyboards/electronics Massimo Pupillo : bass Marque Gilmore : drums Reeks: electronics featuring: Meg : vocals www.bforbang.com ReviewsORGAN ALBUM OF THE WEEK “B FOR BANG – Across The Universe Of Language – B For Bang Rewires The Beatles (KML) - Some serious avant music makers including acclaimed pianist Katia Labèque, David Chalmin from the excellent Dimension X and contemporary composer Nicola Tescari along with guests like Patti Smith, Daniel Day Lewis and such. Across The Universe is not so much a tribute to the Fab Four, or indeed a set of covers, more interpretations using classic songs like Helter Skelter, Come Together, Lucy in The Sky as focus points and spring boards. Familiar lines and riffs cut in to all kinds of soothing, gentle, jarring composition. The Beatles, iconic figures that they are whoever you are or whatever your language, woven in to contemporary avant musical assembly and orchestral stabs and all manner of high-art spiky chamber jazz and other rock – the results are thrilling. Melancholic passages are disrupted as we go back to the bottom and up to the top, challenging piano outbursts, sinister impressionism, inventive focus and all pulled back in to shape by the familiar frame of Beatles songs – all kinds of energies and modern musical traditions colliding as one wonderfully stimulating whole. It works, it works on so many levels – most of all it just works as a rewarding piece of modern musical art to get lost in and enjoy. Wonderfully good “for you. Bearded Magazine '...the album as a who remains a testament to the creativity of the sixties movements. There's more cabaret rock theatrics than good old fashioned rock 'n' roll, as 'Helter Skelter' builds a delicate orchestral crescendo into a frantic explosion of sinister vocals underpinned by a soft drum and bass rhythm quite apart from the original psych-pop elements of the track. But then of course, they'd rather produce innovative interpretations than inferior copies and the album is perforated with imaginative new compositions assembled to perfection, reiterating the essence of the album's contradictory clash of more modern 'modern music' against modern classical music. It is all branded by the influential figures that sparked the creative process who haunt the tracks in their traditionally contemporary heartbeat. Experimusic 'Overall, ‘Across The Universe of Languages’ is a cracking reconstruction of some of ‘The Beatles’ most endearing and hypnotic tracks and endless pleasure can be had by comparing and contrasting the originals with the new re-composed versions. The real ‘crux’ of this album though isn’t just the intelligent recompositon’s but the booming production values which make the songs burst out into your listening space and make the listener re-assess just how good their hi-fi system is. In addition, this release will allow a new generation of hipsters to uncover a treasure trove of classic Beatles material.' Classic FM Magazine “Katia Labéque’s thoughtfully assembled musical portrait of The Beatles runs together as a through composed suite with remakes of the Fab Four waybacks placed in the context of collaged electronica and recitations. Labéque’s inventive playing keeps the music focused around determined vision.” Mojo “Franco-Italian improv crew and friends – in chamber-rockin’ tribute to The Beatles. Julia is given an ethereal soundbed of cello, Fender Rhodes and guitar harmonics, Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite has a sinister avant-lounge and Come Together an impressionistic war theme.” Plan B “Bunch of rare fun, as a collective of (not so) serious avant-garde and contemporary classical types rewire The Beatles as a series of Philip Glass style piano compositions, vertiginous guitar orchestrations and hipster speak.” Uncut “Full marks for attempting to recontextualise nine Lennon & McCartney classics. “Helter Skelter” with a drum and bass backdrop. “I Want You” as if arranged by The Brodsky Quartet. “Happiness Is A Warm Gun” played by a narcopleptic Nirvana.” Jazzwise “Tescari’s arrangements – turning ‘For The Benefit Of Mr Kite’ into spiky, baroque chamber jazz, for instance – are both cerebral and engaging…It’s not just a mixed bag – it’s downright peculiar. Buzz “With jazzy, melancholic and theatrical arrangements there’s plenty of intrigue, retaining something of the original while adding their own chaotic energy and atmosphere.” B for Bang |
| Katia Labèque : piano/rhodes David Chalmin : electric guitar & vocals Nicola Tescari : keyboards/electronics Massimo Pupillo : bass Marque Gilmore : drums Reeks: electronics featuring: Meg : vocals |
