Thanks to .:.impossible design‘s Cary Ralston (who also did the cover art for the album) for hipping me to the latest review of Ombak’s Framing the Void. The review comes by way of Clifford Allen at the wonderful new-music (and lots more) blog, Bagatellen.
From the starting gate, it’s clear that Ombak are an extraordinarily unique group, a swaggering quartet that chomps and bellows like Albert Mangelsdorff fronting prog-rock.
Slushy tailgate, trombone multiphonics, damaged-blues fretwork and limber percussion stand well on their own, but Ombak are a collective venture whose parallel roads all lead to the same end, however upturned it might seem.
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