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Jinjer - Duration: 00:41:48
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Although his name will say little to the youngest, the Ukrainian lobster Sergey Bubka (although at the time competing with the banners of the Soviet Union) was the first to break down the six -meter wall in the jump with the auction, retouching for As many as thirty -five times in the eighties/nineties the world record of the specialty.
Here, in the same way, the Jinjer in the last decade have brought to the limelight the name of the Donetsk, their homeland (then rises to the honors of the chronicles for the well-known war events), raising the bar starting from the single split- Internet “Pisces” and passing through subsequent contaminations, from reggae to jazz, “micro” and “macro”. If “Wallflowers” represented an excellent way of pulling a row by setting the coordinates of the sound jinjer on a solid mix of progressive, groove, djent and -core, in the same way we can say that “duél” consolidates the formula of its predecessor, working of chisel even without introducing particular novelties within a now immediately recognizable sound trademark.
Since the initial “tantrum” we therefore witness the usual assault on the bayonet, with the polyrhythmic machine guns of the drummer Vlad (main composer) intertwined by double wire with the eugene bass with five ropes and the Roman guitar, while Tatiana as always steals the Scene with its ups and downs from the screen to clean, even in the absence of a real refrain.
The expanded timing of the processing of the album – whose first demos date back to almost four years ago – led to a greater general care and a painstaking processing of every detail with the trusted producer Max Morton, but the basic approach remains that of An essential complexity: voice, guitar, bass and drums for a progressive groove without special effects and without too many overdue.
In some cases the most direct approach translates into a predominant use of the Scream with a sense of palpable urgency (“Rogue”, “Fast Draw” with its almost hardcore rhythms), while songs rich in atmosphere such as “Tumbleweed”, “Green Serpent” or “Someone's Daughter” are tailored to the clean timbre tonal of Tatiana, a guiding spirit that accompanies us by the hand on the Ukrainian mountains outlined on the pentagram by the three instrumentalists; In the middle, the melodic aggression of the title-track or the double rhythmic twisted “Kafka” twice, even if, even if in the presence of an always good average quality, there is no prominent element capable of further raising the bar of above.
The risk, especially in the face of a distracted listening, is not to grasp the shades by perceiving an excessive homogeneity between the pieces in the lineup, but once you enter into connection with the Jinjer universe it is difficult not to be dragged by the energy blow too If you have not grown on bread and prog.
Paraphrasing “Rocky IV”, we now wait for the return of the Canadians Spiritbox to decree the winner between the western blockade and the former Soviet Republic; In the meantime, we can say that the previous “Wallflowers” remains a span above “Duél”.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM