Passport - Hand Made
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Artist: PassportEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-10-14
Music Label: Wounded Bird Records
Soundtracks:
- Abracadabra
- Connexion
- Yellow Dream
- Proclamation
- Hand Made
- Puzzle
- Quiet Man
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Free Music Review: ABRACADABRA!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
'Hand Made' is definately a key transitional album for Passport. Not only did it usher in their "green and purple alien lanscape" era of cover art (Passport album covers are always among my very favorites in any era) but a pronounced change in their music. The bands first two albums,especially Passport showcased a band on more the heavy rocky side of fusion. On this album Curt Cress has been seriously studying the JB's apparently because it's definately had a huge influence on the sound. What is making the bands sound really unique on this album is that they've somehow managed to channel that brittle and efficiant Germanic musical sensability into their type of funk. I don't think they meant to do that but it just came through and the results are extremely compelling. "Abracadabra" is the most obviously jazz/rock kind of song on the album as the drumming and the fender rhodes build up this tension in the effort to make a great deal of noise. Still that repetative funk spareness is in the production too. On "The Connection" and "Yellow Dream" Klaus himself is adding these gentley atonal sax flavors and the end result is close to....I suppose some Eastern European variation of Miles Davis's On the Corner. I use that term because this music is far more rigid and tight rhythmically and doesn't possess the kind of complex afrocentric percussion Miles was getting in his music of the period. It is on "Proclamation" that the Passport sound that more fully developed on albums such as Cross-Collateral begin on this song,as the genre of progressive funk-jazz-one that Passport quietly helped to pioneer really came into fruitation. On the 9+ minute title song there's a bit of this R&B shuffle to this jazz-funk-rock opus-giving it a flavor somewhat similar to Steely Dan of roughly the same period. "Puzzle" is simply amazing funk as the beat,clavinet and rhythms in general all come together in just the right place. The inspiration,again is an Eastern European style JB thing with some Herbie Hancock thrown in as well. In the end,you know the sound definately belongs to one band alone. The album ends on another avante garde fusion kind of touch on "The Quiet Man". Passport definately had a "sound".Only the really great bands in any genre had it. And it's sort of a pity that they had so little exposure outside Europe because during fusions heyday Passport did so much on the international front to forward it's development and fuse it with the rhythmic patterns of funk and prog rock (two genres you would'nt think would mix) the same way Miles,Weather Report,Return To Forever and all their spin off acts were doing at the time state side.
Hand Made Poster
One could suggest that the names Klaus Doldinger & Passport could be synonymous, for they really are one and the same. The driving force behind the group Passport, for almost four decades now has been Klaus Doldinger. We now add 8 more titles to our already extensive Passport catalog. All of these titles are making their U.S. CD debuts, being only available as high price import CDs if you can find them.Jazz Music CDs
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