Fuzz Noir

Uarrgh 2

JWR 05/05


1. Chat (P. Rom)
2. Panaroia (R. Preuschl)
3. VideoClerks (M. Prowaznik)
4. Samba Ratte (W. Schiftner)
5. Extended Maxi (P. Rom)
6. Tahmine (R. Preuschl)
7. Uarrgh 2 (R. Preuschl)
8. Tell Me The Way To The Next Whiskey Bar (W. Schiftner)
9. If There’s A Doubt, There’s No Doubt (P. Rom)
10. Choral Nr. 1 (W. Schiftner)
11. Interlude (Preuschl/Prowaznik/Rom/Schiftner)

Raphael Preuschl – bass
Michael Prowaznik – drums
Peter Rom – guitar
Wolfgang Schiftner – saxophone

Recorded on April, the 24th and 25th 2005 at the WUK Studios/Vienna except Samba Ratte recorded live on April, the 7th at the JazzWerkstatt Festival 2005 and Chat recorded live on April, the 12th at the JazzWerkstatt Festival 2005
Mix and Mastering: W. Angerer
Artwork and Design: P. Brunsteiner / Beast Communications

Edwin Pouncey, Jazzwise, February 2007

Don’t let the title of this – the comic book sound effect of somebody violently vomiting in a bucket – put you off. Fuzz Noir’s debut is anything but a nauseating experience. This Austrian quartet have a keen sense of sound and vision, their furious rock fusion attack is constantly causing flurries of abstract pattern to emerge from behind the music which, on the first hearing, seemingly veers in the direction of Hot Rats-era Frank Zappa and John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra. As the various instrumental patterns lock into place, however, a more complex set of sound pictures gradually takes shape. The flurries of what initially sounded like straight ahead jazz figurations become more fragmented as the players become bolder and more confident, solos are punched out, and the bare musical bones of Fuzz Noir eventually flash out to reveal a band with real muscle. Super cool one minute and avant garde fusion the next. Uargh 2 has the power to open a lot of different ears.