Six feet on solid ground

"Magpie er beat poetry der er faldet ned gennem et beskidt kakkelovnsrør. Tilsodet freejazz med løse klistrede kanter. De beskriver det selv som Captain Beefheart der møder Morton Feldman ... Der er elementer af samling og forståelse. Der er elementer af vanvid og opløsning.Magpie er en flimrende blanding af noir, slam og...Magpie er en skarp blanding af time, looseness og...".

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"Magpie is an anti-fascist, free-punk trio, playing on acoustic instruments with lots of screeching bows and clanging on the inner-strings (...) and some explosive speech-grenades. Magpie unites American poet-vocalist-pianist Eliot Cardinaux and Danish double bass player Asger Thomsen and drummer-percussionist Jeppe Høi Justesen. And Magpie describes its poetic words and music as a fresh blend of Captain Beefheart and Tom Waits meeting Melt Banana sitting in the back row of a Keith Jarrett solo concert in Japan ... This trio met in a two-week festival stint in Boston, organized by [Kresten] Osgood. The debut album of Magpie (...) focuses on the poetry of Cardinaux that sets the atmosphere for his piano musings and the loose, spontaneous interplay of the trio, best realized on the only instrumental piece, «Castles and Cathedrals». The trio, in its turn, corresponds to the whimsy, enigmatic delivery and deep, warm voice of Cardinaux with great senses of drama, imagination and invention ... Don't miss this beautiful recording!".

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