After five murderous albums with System of a Down, three solo albums and one vivid collaboration with Arto Tunçboyacıyan (Serart), the time has come for Jazz-iz Christ. This is an album I was really expected since Serj Tankian posted on his SoundCloud page the first track of this avant-garde/fusion project. This is not metal, although it has a few powerful guitar riffs, but it’s a nice melange of progressive rock, funk and jazz with several more or less exotic flavors.
Jazz-iz Christ is Serj’s brainchild, but truly is a collaborative effort between several musicians that Tankian curated to be part of the group and this self-titled album. Among others, there are considerable contributions from renowned pianist Tigran Hamasyan, flautist Valeri Tolstov, trumpet player Tom Duprey and additional performances from Stewart Copeland, actor/musician Davis Alpay and Vincent Pedulla. The 15 tracks that comprise Jazz-iz Christ, is mostly instrumental effort except for 4 tracks: “End of Time”, “Distant Thing”, “Song of Sand” and “Garuna”.
This is an exciting trip and a colorful amalgam of progressive jazz, electronic, ethnic and rock elements, a cool trip into the generous area of genderless avant-garde music with strong jazz roots and resonances. Read more Jazz-iz Christ – Jazz-iz Christ (2013)
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“From a junior high school talent show to festival stages—such is the journey of Down With Webster. They’ve crawled their way from the absolute bottom with only the dream of success to feed their hungry stomachs, and now they’ve touched success, recently signing with Universal Canada.
