Ken Vandermark, Klaus Kugel, Mark Tokar - Escalator (2017)

Ken Vandermark / Klaus Kugel / Mark Tokar
Escalator
2017 - Not Two Records: MW963-2
https://www.nottwo.com/mw963
https://vandermark1.bandcamp.com/album/escalator



* Ken Vandermark : tenor saxophone, clarinet
* Klaus Kugel : drums, percussion
* Mark Tokar : double bass

http://vandermark.tokar.kugel-trio.com/

http://www.kenvandermark.com/
https://www.klauskugel.com/
http://www.marktokar.info/

Recorded live by Rafał Drewniany at Alchemia Club
in Krakow, Poland, on May 5th, 2016.
https://alchemia.com.pl/program/vandermark-tokar-kugel/

Reviews

By Tim Niland
https://jazzandblues.blogspot.com/2017/08/ken-vandermark-klaus-kugel-mark-tokar.html

The music on this excellent album was created by a highly combustible trio
consisting of Ken Vandermark on tenor saxophone and clarinet, Mark Tokar on
bass and Klaus Kugel on drums and percussion. This album was recorded at the
Alchemia Club in Krakow in May of 2016 and begins with "13 Lines" which blasts
hard right out of the gate, with Vandermark's expressive saxophone holding
court with the elastic bass and drums. They proceed into an epic blowout of
collective improvisation, moving massive slabs of sound and developing a
hypnotic gaze. There are long low tones of reed to open "Automatic Suite" which
moves through several layers, swirling with gentle percussion and chimes giving
way to shrieks of clarinet, with fractured rhythm refracting the music in all
directions like a funhouse mirror. Vandermark moves back to tenor saxophone as
the music deepens like an industrial machine that grinds relentlessly forward...

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By Gustav Lindquist
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2017/12/ken-vandermark-klaus-kugel-mark-tokar_29.html

By avantscena
https://avantscena.wordpress.com/2017/07/26/ken-vandermarkklaus-kugelmark-tokar-escalator-nottwo-records-2017/

Sebastian Chosiński (pl)
https://esensja.pl/muzyka/recenzje/tekst.html?id=24894

Ben Taffijn (de)
https://draaiomjeoren.blogspot.com/2018/05/cds-ken-vandermark-klaus-kugel-mark.html

Por Marcelo Cohen (es)
https://www.revistaotraparte.com/musica/escalator/