<p><span><span>- Within the outskirts of modern Australian jazz lives the <strong>Miles Davis</strong>’ school of thought, that’s the Social Music method of “You take out what you want, and leave what you don't like”, this method is being extrapolated with increasingly robust results. Improv quintet GODTET<strong> </strong>have released the third installation to their triptych <em>GODTET III</em>, which is filled with inspired conversation and a finely tuned group dynamic.</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>Throughout this Sydney-oriented group’s series, organic beat music has been central. Compassionate loops and accommodating motifs have played host to the players tight interactions and wild inflections and it is in <em>GODTET III</em> that the improvisations are their most graceful yet. Even as they may exist as excerpts from extended explorations, the raspy grooves of <em>Intro</em> to the gaseous shift of <em>Sun</em> through to the longshore drift of <em>Love Story</em> form a seamless patchwork of gentle change and textural dalliance.</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>The group’s founder, <strong>Godriguez</strong>, focusing heavily on manipulating the guitar into phantoms allows the layers of complexity being contributed by <strong>Andrew Bruce, Dominic Kirk, Jan Bangma </strong>and <strong>Tully Ryan</strong> to arise clearly. It is this combination of deft touch that opens the record up to ambient etiquettes and hints at the more conciliatory end of musique concrete.</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>As the final entry to GODTET’s triptych, you can hear the intricate outlines of their progression, the disintegration of traditional jazz into oblique social music: from bop harmony into hip-hop selection, evolving into a mirage of the past one-hundred years of popular music. And in the context of their recent Opera House performance, <strong>GODTET’s</strong> expansion is seemingly unstoppable.</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>- Nicholas J. Rodwell.</span></span></p>
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