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Funk Tunes and Love Songs from QFTF
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Experience of Life
QFTF
2019
Life of course is too sprawling and complicated to fit into any tidy box, and so it's no surprise that this Experience of Life is much the same. The members of Init like their groove-jazz at a spry mid-tempo with fun interplay at the core, which allows for all kinds of flavors in the process. This exciting Swiss trio is a resolutely modern one not opposed to a few glimpses of old-school jazz history as well -some easygoing groove, some funk-fusion organ, some jaunty bebop hooks, and always plenty of electricity both literal and not.
Their debut kicks off with a folksy lick suitable for a


Mostly Love Songs
QFTF
2019
However it looks on the surface, this isn't (just) a collection of soft-jazz love songs.
Marc Mezgolits
bassWithout a drummer to follow, the quartet feels out its rubato timing in a way that's natural and dreamy. The dual horns and loping piano sound sweet enough to merit titles like the "Heart Candy" motif that recurs throughout. Mezgolits' love songs wouldn't stoop to going chintzy or pushing obvious buttons; "I Long for You" goes for quiet yearning rather than overt emoting, while a couple rumbly spots like "Fenster" momentarily hint at something troubled (well, love has some stormy moments too). Mezgolits and the quartet are content to portray their theme at an expressive slow burn, unassuming yet always subtly passionate underneath.
Tracks and Personnel
Experience of Life
Tracks: Consequence of Increase; Dirty Harry; Slow Down; Confidence; Treat Me Like a Guinea Pig; Experience of Life; Doesn't Matter; Heartache; Ernst in Haft.
Personnel: Christian Zünd: drums; Pirmin Sch?dler: organs, Rhodes; Dominik Eberle: guitar.
Mostly Love Songs
Tracks: Heart Candy 1 -Opening; Heart Candy 2 -De.s.cent; I Long for You; H?ndedruck; Fenster; Heart Candy 3 -Happy Sad; Heart Candy 4 -Too Close for Comfort; Still; Sch?n Warst Du Da; Zu Weit; What Once Was.
Personnel: Marc Mezgolits: bass guitar; Sebastian von Keler: tenor & soprano saxophone; Marc Roos: trombone; Stephan Plecher: piano.
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