Junkfood
Transience

THE REVIEW

Requested by my trusted and knowledgeable dealer in the hope that some crazy person like me would be convinced to purchase this stuff, presented as "Italians playing things not very different from artists of Cuneiform" to lure me in. Junkfood is a new band from the "famous label Trovarobato", already known to a few for artists like Samuel Katarro and Mariposa.

"Transience" is the first album by the quartet from Bologna, which combines the musical preferences of its members into a mix of avant-garde Jazz-Rock that ranges from the early days of New York Fusion to 90s Math-Rock coordinates, according to their personal page on their record label's website "A jazz that retrieves the melody/standard as a memory of the past, becomes flesh in the present, and speaks to today while looking to the future". I would say it’s music that draws its inspiration from a time span ranging from "Bitches Brew" by Davis to "What Burns Never Returns" by Don Caballero.

Purchased almost blindly, I say almost because the "fisherman" decided to add a slightly bigger bait to the hook, given my reluctance to purchase records that exceed a 10-euro bill (thus, new releases), telling me it was an entirely instrumental record and after playing a few Samples from the Web, he succeeded in his intent.

Nothing to say, the opening riff of "Aging Hippie Liberal Douche" is striking, a bolt from the blue wrapped in a whirlwind of brass, an atmosphere with a Crimsonian-Canterburian flavor for my naive ears enchanted by that sound. "Exodus" is a slow musical journey that brings together in a single shot, in a single frame, images of Brussels, New York, London, and Louisville, creating a new metropolis within Bel Paese.

I don’t know how much Paolo Raineri, Michelangelo Vanni, Simone Calderoni, and Simone Cavina would appreciate the little word "Progressive" next to this review, but I slap it there with pleasure, attempting to lure even a small sect that seems to find interesting the nonsense I put down in black and white.