Cover of Zukanican Horse Republic
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For jazz enthusiasts, fans of avant-garde and experimental music, listeners who appreciate musical nuance and unconventional sounds
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THE REVIEW

The music enthusiast believes they are listening to the best, often considering themselves a film and literary critic too, all fueled by a couple of Truffaut films and a few Burroghs books on heroin they've read.

The music enthusiast is someone who never changes their mind; if they once said that album was bad, well, that's how it will remain. They are more obstinate than flies that keep crashing into windows, but at least flies have the excuse of freedom.

"Horse Republic" is an album that takes on multiple directions. It is meticulously detailed and full of nuances that the listener can discover more with each listening. It’s not the usual jazz, though jazz is never usual.

This masterpiece could be inflated with grandiose words, endless technical judgments, and diverging opinions, but I certainly won’t be the one to cast the first stone. I won’t be the music enthusiast. To me, the Zukanican represents a group expressive of everything that isn't conventional.

Listen to them, plunge right in, comment, critique, express an opinion, disapprove, evaluate, scold, feel alive... I am sure one day you will change your mind.

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Zukanican's album Horse Republic offers a richly detailed and nuanced jazz experience that defies conventional boundaries. The review praises the album's complexity and the evolving discoveries it offers listeners. It encourages openness and repeated listening despite initial judgments. Horse Republic stands as an expressive, unconventional masterpiece in jazz.

Tracklist

01   Bug Hunter (10:30)

02   Thingyo (03:06)

03   Trawling For Horses (08:21)

04   Shake Hands! (07:36)

05   Ringa Roya (06:58)

06   Where Are The Casualties? (08:56)

07   Vague And Nebulous (03:53)

08   Leak Winks (04:41)

Zukanican

An unconventional music group blending free-jazz, free-funk, psychedelic and experimental sounds, exemplified by the album Horse Republic.
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Other reviews

By DanteCruciani

 The album is filled with the most varied of sounds and images, each more beautiful than the last.

 A masterpiece piece. The album closes in a gentlemanly manner, strolling in slippers in the atmospheres of “Flying Teapot” by Gong and “Waka Jawaka” by Zappa.