Man Made Object

Bought this based on an Amazon recommendation and really liking it. I think it is because I like Snarky Puppy and if you do you'll like this too. Got the vinyl and unlike the person below no problems with distortion. That could easily be an issue with turntable set up e.g tracking force, not the pressing, As this is a recording with big dynamic range.Percussion and rhythm are very much to the fore and I like the way the tracks build in intensity and the piano brings a great counterpoint. The recording is good with strong dynamics and a reasonable soundstage. Highly recommended.

But a long way from background cocktail lounge stuff. Really enjoy this group who have updated the trio format with electronics and great themes.

Adore this album. Big sound for a trio, but with space for each instrument to breathe. I am having a few issues with the vinyl press though. Few distorted sections and have already had a second copy sent back to Amazon. Anyone else finding this? Expect more from a bluenote press.

I stumbled upon this band quite recently, while searching for volunteering opportunities in Africa strangely enough (ref: Volunteer 4 Africa website). This album takes you places you've never been before and is an astonishing mash-up of electronica, jazz and classical music. From beautiful meditative piano to chunky bass grooves and intoxicating atmospherics, Man Made Object will inspire and aid you along the path to musical enlightenment. Can't wait to see them live in London this May.

I discovered Gogo Penguin by accident via the Bandcamp App (which I also recommend) about 4 years ago and was immediately smitten. I purchased their first album Fanfares and their follow up album V2 , both of which feature as the albums with the highest number of plays according to my iTunes stats.Man Made Objects hasn't disappointed and easily accomplishes 5 stars from me. Top class musicians

Had never heard this trio until BBC six music Freak Zone broadcast.Bought on strength of that one track.Piano, drums and double bass - Instrumental throughout. Tight jazzy feel. Certainly 3 talented musicians play well together and as soloistsFile under 'jazz' and next to 'Isotope', and 'Red Snapper'Certainly worth it if this is your thingNice!

Is it jazz, in parts, yes, but it's also Electronica, breaks, nu classical and points in between. It's not too far fetched to say these guys have invented a new genre. Not as immediate as V2, but the more you play it, the more you'll want to play. Catch them live if you can, they are unbelieveable.

More modern instrumental music then jazz but played by a jazz style trio I think.Occasional nod to Penguin Café, the new version comes to mind but they have there own sound. Each track is interesting and different and played with skill and feeling.

A découvrir absolument pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas le groupe Gogo Penguin.J'ai eu la chance d'assister à un concert au théâtre de Sénart le 12 décembre 2023.Cd à recommander.

The best way to explain GoGo Penguin’s album, Man Made Object, to a jazz fan is with the observation that there is a trick to giving a pill to a dog. Hide it in peanut butter. The dog won’t realize what it is eating. Many jazz fans are stuck in the past, and to be sure, the glory era of the 1950s and 1960s were glorious indeed. Or bebop fans can appreciate the rise of Bird & Diz, swing fans have Duke, the Count, take your pick. Yet jazz progresses. And music progresses. There is stuff out there, and many if not most jazz fans turn up noses at what the kids do. Computers squeaking and squawking at X beats per minute, drum beats snapped to a grid, and all of that. Who cares. Not a question, but a statement. Yet even if those computers squeaking and squawking are dull at best and rather worse at worst, what if there is a human mind that programed the computer, and that the mind might have some ideas? What if some other human mind takes those ideas, and does something jazz-like with them? Remember the history of jazz, taking standards and show tunes and turning them into high art. Would anyone really have thought that My Favorite Things would become what John Coltrane made it? So what if some very serious thinkers take the ideas from those computers squeaking and squawking and do some serious jazz? Maybe the old dogs can learn some new tricks, or at least swallow the pills, covered in peanut butter.GoGo Penguin takes that approach to adapting concepts and rhythms from modern children’s music, as Tom Lehrer might call it, and they do something new with it. Like Miles and company building fusion by incorporating “children’s music” into jazz back in the late 60s and early 70s, GoGo Penguin build a new fusion. However, while Miles worked with an expanded group, incorporating electric guitar, electric piano and so forth, Man Made Object is basically a piano trio affair. GoGo Penguin sometimes expands their sound, but on this album, they keep it mostly to an instrumental arrangement that could have been played by walking on stage and picking up the same instruments vacated by Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian after the trio finishes their set, although one may wonder what kind of expressions Evans and company would have had on their faces upon hearing the result. Rather than working with new arrangements and instruments, GoGo Penguin is building on the rhythms and structures of what gets played in clubs that don’t get frequented by the jazz crowd.The result is something that is not just palatable to a jazz snob, but thrilling to those with open ears. Computers squeaking and squawking at however many beats per minute continue to hold no interest for many. Yet there is something to the rhythms. I am reminded of a lot of the music that has been put out by the Wide Hive label, incorporating hip hop elements into jazz. Many jazz fans are disinterested at most in hip hop, yet incorporated into jazz, the result can be fascinating. Same thing here. This is lively, complex, dynamic, and most importantly, organic.It is that organic component which is, by definition, missing from the electronic music from which GoGo Penguin draws much of its inspiration, but by making an organic version of those rhythms, and using jazz improvisation, this? This is something that an open-minded jazz fan can enjoy, quite thoroughly.There are ideas everywhere. Many are just poorly implemented. In the hands of skilled musicians, though? The implementation is corrected. Wonderful.

Purely instrumental.

Registrazione top! Sonorità Jazz molto moderna, coinvolgente e mai stancante, specie per chi, come me, si sta approcciando a questo genere.

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