Still Corner

Excellent Swedish jazz. It's definitely highly influenced by free jazz and the avant-garde but it's still quite accessible.

The C Sides Project, originally known as just "C Sides", was founded in the early 2010s from 3 ex-members from "Magenta". In February of 2020, they released their fourth full length album called "Purple Hearts Corner". Two of the original founders, Martin Rosser (guitar) and Allan Mason-Jones (drums, percussion) are still with the band who is also made up of Allen McCarthy (vocals, bass), Sian Elson (additional vocals), and Kevin Dawson (keyboards, piano). This album is made up of 5 fairly long tracks, and follows their usual sound (as of late) of a light progressive sound that sits somewhere between Neo-prog and Crossover Prog. Melody, heaviness, catchy repetitive motifs, nice piano lines, samples, all put together with inspiration.

Well they are finally back after a decade away and the worry was will it be as good as previous releases. Well the good news is that it's not as good, it's even better! This is probably the bands strongest release. The line up is the same as previously, William Kopecky ' bass, Dan Maske ' keyboards, Angela Schmidt ' cello & Craig Walkner ' drums with the addition of guest Jerry Loughney ' violin. It still features all the rehearsal intensive composed music but rocks and bounces like a beast. For fans of Univers Zero, Henry Cow, DAAU, with 20th century classical composer references in a rock setting this is a must have.