Listening diary 28th March, 2022: Arti & Mestieri - Tilt (progressive jazz rock, 1974)
My relationship with this one comes and goes. There are days where it absolutely hits the
spot, as arguably my favourite thing to come out of Italian progressive rock, but I'll admit
that sometimes it has passed me by without much effect. A lot of it is down to the drumming -
it carries the music to the degree where if you're not focused, you might miss just how good
this is. Like a distant precursor to The Mars Volta, Arti & Mestieri create organised chaos
by taking parts of genres both simplistic and detailed. There's a lot of jazz-rock rhythm in
here, accentuated by the saxophones and clarinets, but there's also a punk-rock aggression
that pulls it all together. The whole thing feels like an angsty musical workout, and on days
where intensity is something I'm craving, few albums of this era do it better.
7.6 (7th listen)
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