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TIGROVA MAST
S/T
(RAIG)

‘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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