La Musique Dans La Plume Album Review

“Coevality is a progressive rock trio based in Los Angeles which has the distinction of having a very jazz-rock sound thanks to the use of fretless guitars and basses. Those who know me know that I appreciate the subtle roundness of the sounds of these instruments, allowing them to overcome the limits imposed by the frets. It is therefore with great hearing pleasure that I reveled in this album of 7 instrumental tracks forming one from start to finish.

Recalling the best hours of fusion jazz, Tribal Tech or Cynic for syncopated rock parts. We are dealing here with very high level instrumentalists but not that, the technical demonstration having become commonplace for several years, an extraordinary musicality and a singularity is necessary for musicians venturing into progressive lands. Here the journey is grandiose, the sound quest fascinating, to such an extent that it took our protagonists ten years to achieve it.

The instrumentation is very varied, since in addition to electric guitars and basses, musicians work on cello, double bass, trumpet, synthesizers for ever richer forays into unknown territories and revealing multiple personalities. as the name of the album suggests. Musically, the pieces deploy complex structures, changes of tones, breaks, solos, themes, arabesques (dear to Debussy and that I call sound kaleidoscopes and that we often hear in English as “ noodling ”) etc… without ever forgetting the melodies and finesse of the phrasing of the instrumentalists.

Lovers of Jazz Fusion and Progressive Rock, this album will enchant you from listening to listening, each new salvo revealing hidden subtleties. An album that I will never get tired of and that is already in the running for album of the year in my heart.”
-Xavier Boscher at La Musique Dans La Plume
(Google Translated from French)

See the full article here:
https://www.lamusiquedanslaplume.fr/coevality-multiple-personalities/