{"id":2906,"date":"2010-04-08T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomajazz.com\/web\/?p=2906"},"modified":"2016-04-10T23:06:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T21:06:46","slug":"haftor-medboe-group-a-box-of-monkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/haftor-medboe-group-a-box-of-monkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Haftor Medb\u00f8e Group: A Box Of Monkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_huJnG8dEQz8\/S744RQAr-vI\/AAAAAAAABaI\/gLSZSJddqyw\/s1600\/haftor_medboe_group.gif\" imageanchor=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_huJnG8dEQz8\/S744RQAr-vI\/AAAAAAAABaI\/gLSZSJddqyw\/s320\/haftor_medboe_group.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<i>A Box Of Monkeys<\/i>, la tercera entrega del Haftor Medb\u00f8e Group, bien podr\u00eda entrar en la categor\u00eda de mini-\u00e1lbum: esta obra s\u00f3lo contiene cinco temas y no llega a los treinta minutos de duraci\u00f3n. Un hecho que es de agradecer, al contrario de lo que sucede en esas otras ocasiones en que los artistas se empe\u00f1an en extender la duraci\u00f3n de los CD hasta el l\u00edmite, sin importarles su contenido. Las buenas composiciones aqu\u00ed incluidas muestran distintas facetas de un grupo que toma su inspiraci\u00f3n en el pop, el <i>bop <\/i>y la <i>fusion<\/i>.<br \/><a name=\"more\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Las dos joyas del disco, estrat\u00e9gicamente situadas, son \u00abLiving nothing as we leave\u00bb y especialmente \u00abAs times spin backwards\u00bb. En estos dos temas, cercanos al pop, participa la cantante Anneke Kampman. El grupo queda supeditado a su trabajo vocal, para conseguir sendas canciones que traen a la mente las de la \u00faltima parte de la carrera de Bj\u00f6rk. Ello no s\u00f3lo es debido a la voz, con un punto menos de histrionismo que la de la cantante islandesa, sino tambi\u00e9n a los arreglos. Distinto es \u00abPneumatic\u00bb, el tema que abre el disco. Recurriendo a las omnipresentes programaciones, comienza despacio para ir tomando velocidad y desembocar en sendos solos magn\u00edficos de Haftor Medb\u00f8e (guitarra), y de Konrad Wiszniewski (saxo tenor). Por su parte, \u00abUp Spiral Up\u00bb y \u00abSurfrize\u00bb son dos temas a tiempo medio, cercanos a la <i>fusion<\/i>, en los que hay un equilibrio muy bien conseguido entre la calidad de los solos y el trabajo del grupo, incluidas las programaciones de Gavin Hislop. El resultado final es un disco muy variado, que transcurre en un suspiro, y que gracias a ello tiene el m\u00e9rito de dejar tras su escucha con ganas de m\u00e1s.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Pachi Tapiz<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Haftor Medb\u00f8e Group: <i>A Box Of Monkeys<\/i>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Haftor Medb\u00f8e (guitarra), Anneke Kampman (voz), Konrad Wiszniewski (saxo tenor), Chris Greive (tromb\u00f3n), Eva Malling (bajo ac\u00fastico), Signy Jakobsdottir (percusi\u00f3n), Gavin Hislop (programaci\u00f3n)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00abPneumatic\u00bb, \u00abLiving nothing as we leave\u00bb, \u00abUp spiral up\u00bb, \u00abAs times spin backwards\u00bb, \u00abSurfrize\u00bb<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Grabado en julio de 2009 en Edimburgo. Publicado en 2010 por Fabrikant Records<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Box Of Monkeys, la tercera entrega del Haftor Medb\u00f8e Group, bien podr\u00eda entrar en la categor\u00eda de mini-\u00e1lbum: esta obra s\u00f3lo contiene cinco temas y no llega a los treinta minutos de duraci\u00f3n. Un hecho que es de agradecer, al contrario de lo que sucede en esas otras ocasiones<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/haftor-medboe-group-a-box-of-monkeys\/\">Contin\u00faa leyendo<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12651,12696,13,12415,15295,77],"class_list":["entry","author-pachi","post-2906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-grabaciones","tag-cd","tag-grabaciones","tag-jazz","tag-jazz-en-espana","tag-jazz-en-espanol","tag-tomajazz"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1017,"url":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/haftor-medb%c3%b8e-group-a-box-of-monkeys-edimburgo-2009\/","url_meta":{"origin":2906,"position":0},"title":"Haftor Medb\u00f8e Group &#8211; A Box Of Monkeys (Fabrikant Records, 2010)","author":"Autor1","date":"15 mayo, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"A Box Of Monkeys, la tercera entrega del Haftor Medb\u00f8e Group, bien podr\u00eda entrar en la categor\u00eda de mini-\u00e1lbum: esta obra s\u00f3lo contiene cinco temas y no llega a los treinta minutos de duraci\u00f3n. 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