Iron Kim Style. The name is just about as nonsensical as the music produced by the band members who represent it. I am all about “fusion” but this is just ridiculous. Iron Kim Style even has trouble defining what they are on their Myspace page. Apparently jazz/rock//metal fusion is just a bad idea. Good to know.
One of the bands’ downfalls (one of them anyway) is that it doesn’t pick a sound. You can’t be Duke Ellington and Metallica; I am sorry to crush the dreams of anyone who aspires to do so (and if you do, my deepest condolences-for more reasons than one). The music itself doesn’t have a pattern. I realize jazz has the freedom to be free form and with the free styling and the scatting. That is all fine and dandy, but the other requirement is to at least do it well. In my opinion I think they are trying to be too many things. As per other aspects of life, it is impossible to be 100 places at once.
Most of the Iron Kim style of music I have come across only manages to accomplish one thing…. Confusing the hell out of your ears. Running the risk of sounding like a 1950s housewife I am going to be bold and say that this music sounds like noise, noise I could do without. Specifically, the song “Jack out the Kims” is one song I recommend you to listen to in order to understand what exactly I am yammering on about. Let the confusion ensue. Your ears have been warned.
Sounds Like: Miles Davis, Olivier Messiaen, and Terje Rypdal
Key Tracks: Jack out the Kims, Pachinko Malice, Adrift
Manasa Vedula-MuzikReviews.com Contributor
June 16, 2010
