The Belgian groups Jukwaa and Tandaapushi push the free improvised formats into powerful noisy extremes, each in its own unique way.

The sophomore album of Jukwaa expands its free-improvising piano setting t into a quintet, adding to the core trio of pianist Thijs Troch, double bass player Nils Vermeulen and drummer Bert Minnaert aka Sigfried Burroughs Dutch sax player Otto Kokke from the power duo Dead Neanderthals and experimental guitarist Jonas Van den Bossche.

The eight pieces, spanning over dense 37 minutes ride, offer a nervous free associative textures, based on fleeting , thorny outbursts in changing formats, from the full quintet to duos. Kokke charges the interplay of pieces as «Incense» and «Fantôme» With urgent, brutal presence, while Van den Bossche adds otherworldly somic manipultations to «Antepenultième», his duo With bass player Vermeulen. The two long pieces, «Rose» and «Thiepval Poppies», stess how far this expanded format can Reach. «Rose»is massive, distorted drone of that succumbs into a hazy, Electric storm while «Thiepval Poppies», is fractured between nervous, fast shifting outbursts of all the Quintet musicians before reaching its explosive climax

pieces as «Incense» and «Fantôme» with urgent, brutal presence, while Van den Bossche adds otherworldly sonic manipulations to «Antépénultième», his duo with bass player Vermeulen. The two long pieces, «Rose» and «Thiepval Poppies», stress how far this expanded format can reach. «Rose» is massive, distorted drone of that succumbs into a hazy, electric storm while «Thiepval Poppies», is fractured between nervous, fast shifting outbursts of all the quintet musicians before reaching its explosive climax.

Eyal Hareuveni 

Thijs Troch (p, keys), Nils Vermeulen (b), Sigfried Burroughs (dr), Otto Kokke (s), Jonas Van den Bossche (g)