hmm, bad plus modern jazz
you are wrong.
something tells me we won't agree on this
And i guess we'll both survive that.
Went over to itunes and checked out your bad plus.
let's take the sound asthetical part first.
The Kickdrum sounded like early nineties rock, ouicch!
The bass sounded like a DI'ed one with no hi-pass.
If the poor engineer atleast had used some hi-pass, it could have sounded like some early to mid 90's "bad studio, can't afford to isolate the upright so we'll use an DI and put som chorus on it" kind of bass. It gave me the same bad vibe as 5-strings do.
Very thin cymbals, that sounds like american jazzrecords from the 80's(you know when everyone started to use splash cymbals, and they wanted to have them close miked)
The piano sounded Yamaha, thats really bad, makes me think of chic corea.
The emphasis on short roomsound with some caracther was a nice tough.
And also making compressors heard musically in an acoustic setting, nice.
But then again "revolver" opened with a squashed cymbal 38 years ago.
musically:
This sounds to me like a copycat band. Have you ever heard about EST; The Essbjoern Svenson trio? They have done this kind of stuff for years, and better played too, and likewise with their astetichs.
EST have fewer fragments of "acid-jazz" wich i heard a few elements of in your bad plus.
If you want the ultimate in that, you could always check out track 2 on squarepusher's "music is one rotted one" (don't go plastic)
The thing is, that it actually sounds like your bad plus also has listened to an album, wich EST also is heavily influenced by: You should be able to hear it within the first few seconds of the opening of Jan Johansson's album "jazz paa rysska" ("jazz the russian way") from 1967.
His album "jazz paa svenska" from a few years earlier is perhaps even better, but a bit more bill evans influenced.
You won't think of the bad plus as modern after hearing EST and Johansson, THAT VERY THING is simply done over and over before.
The sad part is, that jan johanssons magic mixture of pop/jazz and folkmusic influence ultimately led people like Garbarek to dwell into folk-music and trying to find the aurora borealis somewhere inside an 480L.
If you want to check out more jazz influenced stuff than tortoise in the post-rock,
post-jazz, neo-fusion whatever you want to call it if neccesary genre,
you just might want to check out Jaga Jazzist, and their albums "the stix" from 2002 or "a livingroom hush" from 2001.
And those album are great album recommandations for any listening too.
