tracks

Give 'Em Some
Blues For Arnie
Smoke
Techtonic
Timeline
Rush
Foggy Timeline Breakdown

notes

“….a raucous, power trio session….”
--Audio Magazine

“….a frazzled blast of electro-bop.”
-Jazziz Magazine

BRUCE ARNOLD POWER TRIO KICKS OUT THE JAMS
WITH RELEASE OF LATEST CD:
GIVE ‘EM SOME

Slamming grooves, mind-boggling playing and a planetarium’s worth of sounds characterize the latest work by Bruce Arnold. This one captures the heated improvs, Frippy loops, soPhish-tication and all out where-did-these-guys-come-from brain dancing the trio has been known for in its live performances.

Fearless leader Bruce Arnold on Guitar and Processed Electric Guitar takes the crew, composed of Ratzo B. Harris on Bass, Tony Moreno on Drums, on a journey through time and space, through a few wormholes and back again, all against a righteous backbeat.

Check out “Smoke” with its Hendrix-drenched wah-wah over a bad Bootsie matrix with a little Chuck Berry thrown in just in case you weren’t having enough fun. (Ratzo’s breakneck vamping makes it all sound easy but don’t attempt this one at home.) And Tony Moreno’s solo on the title track “Give ‘Em Some” is what drummers dream about.

“Techtonic” starts out like a mild saunter, but Bruce’s solo accomplishes the seemingly impossible by both imploding and exploding, setting the tone for “Timeline,” a ballad a la Jeff Beck, but with tricky metric shifting, and a coda of pure funk. “Rush” and “Foggy Timeline Breakdown” are examples of what happens when these guys decide to enter the JamBand arena. This is where playing together for ten years comes in handy, with some truly telepathic interactions going down. In “Rush” Bruce lets loose with some processed grunting, swooping and shrieking, while the bass and the drums keep it all going with endless invention. “Foggy timeline Breakdown” finds Ratzo in slap-happy mode with Bruce rocking out in a sweet goodbye.

Whether it’s downtown NYC hangs like the Knitting Factory and CBGBs, or an international festival like Extra Moenia Musiche in Sicily, “this is complex, heady, adventurous, open-ended music fronted by Arnold’s resonant, slightly steely, dusty, distant, single-note sound that straddles the line between jazz tradition and rock snarling.” (All Music Guide)

credits

Bass – Ratzo B. Harris
Drums – Tony Moreno
Guitar – Bruce Arnold

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