Machine and the synergetic nuts – Leap second neutral
(Cuneiform)
www.cuneiformrecords.com



Machine and the Synegetic Nuts is a high-energy instrumental Japanese band, which releases on Cuneiform Records its second brilliant album, Leap Second Neutral. Among their influences we can find jazz-rock, fusion, hard-rock and a cleary recognizable eco of Canterbury Sound, which immediatley catches the attention of every listener who went through the 70s. Like many Japanese bands – this seems to be a common characteristic of musicians from that area, see for example Acid Mother Temple – Machine and the Synergetic Nuts really PLAY HARD, with a powerfull , full of energy attitude which involves the listener since the very beginnig (the opening track is the groovy masterpiece “M-B”, fully built up around one repeated phrase). The album is characterized by groove-oriented compositions, all played with accurately selected sounds an timbres. The band’s reference points include, for example, Mashroom , mid-period Soft Machine and Frank Zappa (it’s not hard to guess it!). If this album had been recorded in the mid-Seventies, it might have enterend the history of rock music as many other jazz-rock releases of that period did (Nucleus, Soft Machine). Unfortunately the international musical panorama strongly changed since then, but this is - and will remain - a very good record, really worth a listen.

Giulia Nuti


Ottimo disco da parte dei giapponesi Machine and The Synergeitc Nuts, che propongono un repertorio strumentale di fusione tra jazz-rock, fusion e Canterbury Sound spesso giocato su groove e frasi ripetute e caratterizzato dall’attitudine aggressiva e carica di energia con cui la band, ponendosi in linea con lo stile di molte band giapponesi, esegue la propria musica. Se fosse uscito negli anni Settanta, non avremmo esitato a catalogarlo fra gli album che hanno fatto la storia del jazz rock insieme a Nucleus e Soft Machine (alla cui musica si trovano notevoli rimandi). Il panorama musicale da allora purtroppo è notevolmente cambiato, ma l’album è, e rimane, un disco veramente valido.