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Amazon.co.uk Review
The 11th release on the excellent new November label, The Evil Garden is a tribute to the dark and surreal imagination of the New York cult writer and visual artist Edward Gorey (1925-2000). A strong player with a good sense of dynamics, Viennese saxophonist and composer Nagl already has two quintet albums out on November. Here he is joined by vocalist Julie Tippetts, saxophonist and sometime-vocalist Lol Coxhill, guitarist Noel Akshote, pianist/keyboardist Josef Novotny and drummer/percussionist Patrice Heral--the last-named one of the most invigorating and imaginative of drummers. This unusual sextet offers a suite-like combination of pure instrumentals and diversely conceived vocal settings of such classic Gorey pieces as "The Unwelcome Guest" and the title track. The whole is very different in touch and tone from the memorable Gorey tribute The Hapless Child, which was recorded by Michael Mantler for WATT in the mid-1970s (with Robert Wyatt, Terje Rypdal, Carla Bley, Steve Swallow and Jack DeJohnette). Whereas the Mantler record was mostly a driving up-tempo affair, The Evil Garden features a quirky range of deliciously off-centre arrangements, often with something of a Monkish air of rhythmic displacement to them. The result is a totally engaging album, presented in the sort of well-designed, generously illustrated and sturdy CD packaging that is a pleasure to hold and browse through. --Michael Tucker
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