Prehensile Dream

I found some excellent videos of The Bad Plus on YouTube today, there's pretty much a whole concert here. Watch them all. Here's a highlight: the comparatively restrained Prehensile Dream which is from their brilliant 'Suspicious Activity?' album. Unbelievable texture and variation from what is essentially the same thing over and over again. I like the ridiculous scales and contra-motion underneath the melody when the piano gets going.






The Bad Plus are one of my favourite bands in the world and certainly one of the most inspirational. Their compositional technique is unrivaled in its ability to simultaneously experiment with rhythm and tonality, let alone genre and style, whilst aways firmly clasping aesthetic melody and almostsexuallygratifying harmony unrelentingly by the testes.