Adult Jazz
Gist Is

Adult Jazz, Gist Is.

"Minimalism doesn't necessarily mean restraint"

bass guitar drums

but above all voice, voices and percussion

sometimes a trumpet and a keyboard

a few special effects here and there

melodies that keep changing

instruments and scores that come and go

cling to the voice if you don't want to get lost

it is the only apparent common thread

the only guide you'll find in here

"I write these songs to trick God and I do not take it lightly"

songs rising in crescendo, often on the verge of exploding

but they never do, they don't explode

at least not in the way you're subtly led to expect

songs that stop suddenly

as if everything that needed to be said was said, so that's it.

songs like a cogitative-liberating diarrhea

an interior monologue that brings everything out and then, topic exhausted, interrupts itself just like that

without too much fuss.

"We're actually aware of how we're making this beautiful feeling- if I know why it feels beautiful is it not beautiful anymore?"

precise refined

meticulous attention to detail

sounds upon sounds alternating with pauses, very short silences, acapella

Gist Is

there's no jazz here

at most free-jazz

yet without having its form or appearance

Art Pop Post Rock

avant-garde group

this is the evident claim

music that wants to appear improvised

music that wants to seem intuitive

"It's a way of making the form fit the sentiment- how music makes people feel special and can be quite manipulative"

"The whole thing is a pretence, to make music. It's an act of pretending"

a quartet from Leeds.