Les Hommes – Si Cosi (LP) – Sudden Hunger

Label:Sudden Hunger
Format: LP
Cat: SHLP 006
Released: 10 Oct 24
Genre: Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
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Review
Esoteric London trio Les Hommes return with 11 jazzuous trips on their new long player Sì, così, where sounds in unusual orbits abound, with deep-space vintage Lowrey organ, euphonic bass clarinet, grooved-out conga, funkified electric piano and sonorific vibraphone.

Les Hommes is known for its hypnotic blend of mondo jazz, pseudo- cinematronics, ‘60s Rio batucada and lounge exotica. Sì, così is a plasma-rippling suite of similar inspirations and includes pulsar-driven
groovetronics, folky modalisms in waltz time and dreamvitations to the
cine-lounge.

Throughout, organist and leader Rory More re-explores his mid- century Lowrey organ; its oscillators scorched as if on some planetary re-entry. Mellifluous bass clarinet and Arcadian flutes join plangent
electric piano and woody, orotund-and-echoing percussion. Resonant vibraphone tranquilly pierces the aural nimbus. The variations-on-a-theme blueprint is there also, this time with a subtle mutation towards the moods of post-‘60s expressions and beyond.

The tone palette, as ever with Les Hommes, is diversified: “Veronique” is quasi spiritualised with thoughts on a modal mood, “Mirage” veers towards Roy Budd, “Sonorissima bay” gently hypnotises with Echoplexing electric piano figures and primitively visceral organ fluctuations, and “Vampo” states its claim to early ‘70s jazzed-out library from Cinecittà. All in all, a tonal and groove farrago of dusty oscillations.

Tracklist
Side 1
1.”Sonorissima Bay” 3:54
2. “The Hip Heart” 3:49
3. “Hallucinations” 4:55
4. “Mirage” 2:04
5. “Night Drives” 4:16
Side 2
1.”Veronique” 4:01
2.”Vampo” 3:36
3. “Cosi Cosi” 3:10
4. “Waltz-A-Scope” 4:46
5. “Cold Static” 3:44
6.= “Mirage-Still!” 1:33

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