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De​-​Icer

by Pinski Zoo

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    Original 1993 CD with booklet & jewel case. New but not shrink wrapped.

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1.
Bubble Fun 06:10
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2.
Dust Bowl 04:10
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3.
Fridge 07:33
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4.
Ben Hur 07:23
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5.
White Out 05:37
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6.
Bouncing Mirror 06:27
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7.
Nathan’s Song 06:38
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8.
Nightjar 05:26
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9.
De-Icer 07:46
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10.
Slab 07:59
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about

1993 album from leading British experimental jazz group Pinski Zoo, led by saxophonist Jan Kopinski, who mixed rock with free jazz, funk and fusion. Recorded on tour in Austria, USA and the UK between 1991-3.

Jan Kopinski: alto and tenor saxophones
Karl Bingham: electric bass
Steve Iliffe: synthesizers, samples
Steve Harris: drums

“This engaging, harmolodic gem was recorded live at three locations...Yours truly was at that great gig at The Knit where Pinski Zoo played on a double bill with Curlew and both bands were hot and very well matched...What I dig about this is that the music is both danceable and interesting to listen to sitting down.” - Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery

“This set of live performances show how exciting a band Pinski Zoo can be. Don't be fooled by terms like 'jazz-funk' or 'free-funk'. They're pretty inadequate, as are comparisons with Prime Time. Jan Kopinski does at times echo Ornette Coleman in his saxophone playing, but there's also some of the furious intensity of the great British alto player Mike Osborne. Anyway, on most tracks it doesn't matter who, if anyone, Kopinski sounds like, because this is real fusion music, where all the musicians mesh to produce slabs of jagged rhythmic sound, full of supple bass, acerbic alto, inventive percussion and keyboards...Play it loud.” - Paul Donnelly, Stride

“Although their sound is clearly indebted to Ornette Coleman's harmolodics (where each instrument plots its own path across common terrain provided by a crashing electronic beat), Nottingham's Pinski Zoo are instantly identifiable. Typically, a hypnotically repetitive riff is established, anthemic and declamatory or infectiously jaunty, and the drums carry it throughout the piece while the saxophone screams and roars, the electric bass stutters and snarls and the synthesizer provides splashes of colour. Relentless, uncompromising and loud, this is not for the faint-hearted, but for improvisational inventiveness, textural variety and sheer gutsiness, it is difficult to match.” - Chris Parker, BBC Music Magazine

“A timely release from Britain's much neglected Pinski Zoo, our most forceful and original band to labour under the restrictive 'jazz' label. Over a decade together has fused them into a wondrously original unit. Here they're exploring a psychedelic tack, and - logically enough for a collection of live shots - you're most impressed by the solos; Jan Kopinski's eerie sax, Karl Bingham's Hendrix-into-funk bass and keyboardist Steve Iliffe's astonishing post-Zawinulisms. Pinski Zoo are good enough to make you want to burn down the disco - and evaporate all the watered-down 'boundary crossing' compromises that pass for modern jazz these days.” - Ben Watson, Hi-Fi News & Record Review

credits

released February 1, 1993

Tracks 1-4 recorded live at Weisen Jazz Festival Austria. 10th July 1993.
Track 5 recorded live at the Knitting Factory, New York, USA. 21st March 1991.
Tracks 6-10 recorded live at The Mill, Banbury. 17th July 1993.

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Free jazz, contemporary jazz and improvised recorded music label founded by saxophonist George Haslam in 1989, which has released over 250 albums.

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