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‘Toshiro
Mifune meets Omar Sharif in Abu Dabi’, as it is described on the
band’s official site, is perhaps the best description anyone
could have come up with when referring to the conglomerated work
of Croatian trio Tigrova Mast. Formed in 2003 by three
musicians all of which go by body part names (Gut plays the
bass, Heart the drums and Brain the Microkorg) and possess
differing musical backgrounds, Tigrova Mast is an energetic
instrumental noise punk combo whose only offering so far is not
only the most fun display of excessive instrumental math rock,
but is also some of the most dexterous, yet linear work I’ve
heard in a while. Tigrova Mast plays it fast, further making
things seem more complicated than they really are, but for what
it is everything here falls just where it should.
If you need to have an idea of
what this record sounds like think of circus music as
interpreted by a rock and roll Paganini. Better yet, picture
organic mathematic drums and bass with the addition of a Rick
Wakeman-like microkorg player and we are getting dangerously
close. A lot of the material has this playful isolated quality
to it that’s entirely the group’s, but some of the most
leftfield stuff sounds like Croatian folk music. Other times,
this trio shifts territories and offers its own take on Indian
music. “Intermezzo Q” is where Omar Sharif makes a cameo. Like
the soundtrack to a dance scene on a Bollywood movie, Tigrova
Mast only adds the acid to the communal Kool Aid, the result is
bizarre and undanceable. There are eighteen cuts in this
record, all over indulgent and, wisely, all pretty short. The
whole thing is over in a little over half an hour, so even for
those who Tigrova Mast might prove too much can slice it up into
small muncheable doses.
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