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"Don’t Count On Us!" confronts the past and the present of the Belgian composer Frank Nuyts, a complete author with a solid reputation, whose music is played all over the world. He feels at home in many genres and strives to bring a lot of variety, a lot of energy and a lot of humor to his work. As a classical composer, he has already written an impressive work. As a contemporary composer blessed and plagued by a never ending curiosity, Frank keeps his eyes, ears and mind open to any musical discovery in any field. After all, creative excellence can be found in any music genre! But he has also really enjoyed his crossover projects. Hardscore and Beat Love Oracle are two of them.
This album, “Dont Count On Us!”, includes the reissue on CD of "Who's Counting?" released only on vinyl the last year, by the chamber fusion quartet Beat Love Oracle, that combines many styles into a new blend of classical/jazz/progressive music + an unreleased song that was not included in that album. In addition, the last material that Hardscore performed, as an octet formation, of the project titled "Carbon Fixation" of which only 3 songs were recorded in the studio that appear here under the title "Carbon Fixation: Salvaged from the Ashes”. And as a culmination, a new re-recorded version of "13 Seconds" which appeared on the Hardscore album "Monkey Trial" (margen Records, 2004).
"Let’s start with the Beat Love Oracle material, which opens with the fourteen minute “What Beats Watts?,” an expansive piece of what could best be considered chamber jazz-rock, with saxes and marimba out front, and a solid roadbed of drums, percussion and bass powering it all from below; when the sax is soloing’ Nuyts might switch to synths to give the piece a sort-of symphonic backdrop at that time. And did I mention the very strange vocals that don’t cut in until around the eleven minute mark? “Please Don’t Come (Any Closer)” is a happy-go-lucky instrumental piece that might recall Zappa in his Uncle Meat period. “Shift! We’re Lost” has a general improvisational feeling that wanders back to complex composed territory from time to time. One might hear traces of Canterbury in the Beat Love Oracle sound as well. As we shift to the final four tracks of Hardscore material, the sound becomes even more jazzy and orchestral, highlighted by the powerful female vocals of Annelies Van Hijfte, perhaps reminiscent of a breezy and less angular version of Thinking Plague. Beginning to end, this is an outstanding release showcasing the compositional brilliance of Frank Nuyts." (Peter Thelen, Exposé)
"Beat Love Oracle play a lively instrumental fusion, of the Canterbury meets RIO type with influences as diverse as Carla Bley, Gong, Henry Cow, National Health, The Muffins and The Mothers (or at least I can hear all these as possibles), plus diversions to other territory. Instrumentally thery're really good, although when adding vocals, I don't think they are quite so successful. And, talking of which, vocal features on most of Hardscore material, although with female vocalist Annelies Van Hijfte. She is at least a littler eccentric in her vocal delivery, taking the music in a direction somewhat like an old band on Cuneiform called Grits, with quite a bit of later Zappa influence." (Alan Freeman, Audion Magazine # 63)
credits
released March 5, 2021
Beat Love Oracle are: Frank NUYTS (composer, marimba, keyboards, voice) | Frank DEBRUYNE (saxes, backing voices) | Stijn DELDAELE (bass) | Ronald DHAENE (drums)
Hardscore were: Annelies Van Hijfte (voice) | Frank Debruyne (saxes, backing vocals) | Koen Van Overberghe (keyboards, backing vocals) | Frank Nuyts (marimba, synthesizer, backing vocals, texts and composing) | Frederik Martens (piano) | Jonathan Bonny (vibraphone) | Stijn Deldaele (bass) | Ronald Dhaene (drums)
Recorded & Mastered by Jeff Nuyttens
Design & Artwork: Lieven De Graeve (Klant & Klaar)
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No one does music quite like Camille and Xavier do. I see their music as being akin to soundtracks for unfilmed movies. In this instance it is a movie about explorers of mountainous terrain, perhaps the terrain of our lives. Merci pour cette musique si intrigante. :-) sumbuk
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The new live EP by Ryan W. Stevenson's project reminded me, that this debut album must have been gone down the wishlist... If instrumental Canterbury stuff is your thing, this should be a no-brainer. Firmly rooted in the past (late 60s, 70s), nevertheless with a fresh sound. Guests incude The Tangent's Andy Tillison and Soft Machine's Theo Travis. Carsten Pieper