Anthony Buck – Project TRANSMIT

Anthony Buck – Project TRANSMIT

Project TRANSMIT – Anthony Buck

By Chris Peken

Anthony (nee Tony) Buck has been or currently is part of the most diverse group of bands one could imagine – from ambient-minimalist jazz trio The Necks to noise and mayhem merchants Peril; from the funk-soul covers band Paris Pink to hardcore improv outfit Kletka Red. He has played with jazz saxophonists Clifford Jordan and Ernie Watts as well as avant-garde maestros John Zorn and Jon Rose. Project TRANSMIT is, with the exception of bass-player Dave Stymes, all Buck. He drums, sings and plays guitar on an album that challenges as much as his history would suggest it should. From the opening What You Want, an unrelenting post-rock alternate-James Bond-theme; to the closing ten minute Time, an exploration of sound an texture that melts into a gentle lullaby, building like waves on the shore then dissipating back to whence it came from – this album keeps you on your toes, leaves your nerves on edge, never able to settle despite its strongly minimalistic rhythmic nature. Buck’s post-apocalyptic version of Dylan’s Masters of War could not be more apt. He has set out to achieve a “sound and momentum” and has achieved that and more. Disturbingly excellent.

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