Review by bartyMJ published

Utopic Sporadic Orchestra

Nancy 75 Live, 2001

C Prog Zeuhl/Jazz (first play)

"Supreme bassist Jannick Top composed a track and put together a Zeuhl supergroup to play it. There's a rehearsal version and a live audience version and oddly I slightly prefer the rehearsal one. Its mostly pretty frenetic and gets quite aggressive, with violins providing a key element of that aggression (Didier Lockwood being just one notable name on strings) alongside Jannick Top's rollicking basslines. It sounds free and improvisational at times but in reality it's just well rehearsed! Its intense, so not that accessible at times, and the bonus tracks are just more of the same. But for poignancy this is a good Zeuhl-linked track to dig out if you can."