The album covers a live performance on May 27th of 2023, and consists of one, long fourty minute track. In the best tradition of the label Creative Sources, the music is a carefully forward-moving electroacoustic improvisation, on which all instruments create a dense, dark collective sound, that oscillates and shimmers in many layers around a central focal point.
Even if all instruments move freely in and out of the total sound, a core is maintained, like an implicit solidity resulting from its fleeting parts, almost like a auditory reflection of moving atoms creating the illusion of a fixed reality.
The dissonance could explain the album’s title: “the devil’s music”, banned through history by the catholic church and reflecting the position of the establishment for any music that breaks the boundaries of the conventional.
Think also of jazz, rock ‘n’ roll and metal. In contrast to these genres, this music is anything but loud or exuberant, this music here is in a category of its own.
It is eery, compelling, strange at times, disconcerting, appealing, captivating and intense. It requires equally intense listening to capture all the ungoing shifts in sound colour, the creative subtleties and nuances, the various ephemeral threads and barely audible unattributable instrumental voices.
A collective ‘tour de force’, the kind of achievement that can only mean that somehow the devil’s involved.
Stef Gijssels (The Free Jazz Collective)