Music Factory Records has done it again with the “Cherry Peach” a blazing funk odyssey that truly encapsulate lightning in a bottle. This instrumental powerhouse brings together a dream team of musical virtuosos: A bassist Jason Fraticelli and a drummer William Martin and a keyboardist John Medeski playing with an extraordinary guitarist Ari Joshua.The second Medeski’s organ lines run into the track you find yourself in a world of raw, pulsating beats and expansive experimentation with time.
Billy Martin’s drumming is quite careful, but at the same time the man has plenty of the power, which helps him set strict and solid beat for the other musicians to develop. Shaping Fraticelli owns such vigorous bass line which rises and swells like boiling vat, providing, once more, the crucial groundwork for the part. But it is Joshua’s the guitar playing that takes “Cherry Peach” to another level. Joshua plays the guitar like Jimi Hendrix but with a post millennium twist, his fuzz guitar solo is quite brilliant, sharp and clean in a hazy kind of way. The guitar sound is organic with a scooped mid range that gives it a very vintage tone but also posses a type of freshness that is hard to define.
What makes “Cherry Peach” so special is the way these four artists make their music. This is not an ordinary recording, it is dialogue, musical utterance of people’s spiritual subconsciousness that at the same time seems contrived and fleeting. The feel on this track can only be produced by players who do not only know their horns but also the person next to them in the section. Post-production by Jeff Fielder who has collaborated with artists like Indigo Girls, Duff McKagan gives a final beautiful touch, making the record progressively more traditional and at the same time – modern. This is a dominated unprecedented revelation of Music Factory Records in defining a new complex of Funk and Jazz music The tune named ” Cherry Peach” is not an ordinary tune. They are creating something – it is a process, an event, an encounter of sort, an experience in purest form of musical performance.
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