REVIEW: BARRY GUY / MATS GUSTAFSSON - FROGGING

 

BARRY GUY / MATS GUSTAFSSON - FROGGING (Maya Recordings - 1997): We all know what bass master Barry Guy can do. But if you put him together with Mats Gustafsson, a man that plays sax, flutes, french flageolet and other wind instruments you have this great album. With a lot of fun they have titled their songs as some frog species, I think, and like frogs, one of the main charachteristics of this CD is the jumping-like sound of the instrumentation. "Bufo punctatus" starts de experimentation with phrases from Guy and Gustafsson in a totally unconventional manner. "Hyla Pickeringii" is still more strange…I still don´t know how Gustafsson does all this sounds with his instruments. "Lythodytes Ricordii" starts with Guy using the bass almost as a guitar with some rhythms before getting into phrases and more phrases. This record is esesntial for fans of experimentation done in a great way. Email: maya@eircom.net