Search - Jim Black, Alasnoaxis :: Houseplant

The cool answer to the chaos of our lives! Jim Black's AlasNoAxis grew up with rock and creative pop, but are fully engaged in the jazz fields. For Houseplant, the artists merge these influences to create an inviting, warm, and grooving sound atmosphere composed, designed, and created by one of the most multi-faceted drummers in the contemporary music scene. "The best jazz/rock tends to happen when the raw, defining characteristics of both musics are tipped, unmediated, into the same steaming cauldron and left to fight it out. Step forward Charlie Hunter, Nils Petter Molvaer--and Jim Black ... the Brooklyn-based drummer's fourth disc with his AlasNoAxis quartet is a near-perfect gumbo. Heavy on backbeats and slash-and-burn guitar riffs, it's also full of astonishing freewheeling collective improvisation and adventure." --All About Jazz