Omnivorous, dub-diffused, modal electronic jazz skronk by Chris Hontos and Aaron Anderson’s Nuke Watch ensemble, hitting square between the zonked eyes of Ka Baird, Spencer Clark hallucinations, Treader curios, or Drone Operatør audness
Back with a 2nd helping on TTT, Nuke Watch chase 2021’s eponymous introduction with a deliciously delirious new suite of ribboning sax and flute lines threaded thru lysergic electronic fractals and rhythmelodic tumult. The sound is a naturally playful and a logical extension of their work with psych units Food Pyramid, Dreamweapon, and Night Court, and as Beat Detectives. It brings all those group’s styles – and some of their personel – together for a richly polychromatic and semi-organic expression of what could loosely be described as outernational future jazz.
Fathoming a sound that reaches from the modal jazz-dub dervish ‘Mutually Assured Destruction’ to 12 minutes of sampledelic, aqueous exotica on ’Sun Cage’, Anderson, Hontos and co have our attentions rapt for the duration. As implied by their moniker, the group’s sound feels like staring into the sun for too long and doesn’t take itself too seriously, leaving a swirling impression on back of eyelids between the bittersweet psych-folk lash of ‘Lord of the Flies’ and soothing open window jazz projection ‘Portal of Corruption’, while cycling thru all styles across the 12 minutes of 4th world flight in ‘I Was Dead’, syncing minds to the lushest swelter on ‘Leonard’, and knitting processed wind and strings with subbass drops and psychoactive dubbing on ‘Anti Work’.
TIP!
Thanks Boomkat!
