Midwest Record,
CD Review
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JORGE STRUNZ/Neotropical Nocturnes: So what’s the story? Farah is here. Bisharat and those guys are here. Why is this billed as a solo record? When you are an artist with depth like Strunz, you want to push some boundaries. It gets tough to leave your comfort zone, especially when you are an indy artist. Real world bs and all that. If you take a chance that doesn’t work, you will have a bad year. If you stay in the comfort zone, one day those 100,000 loyal fans will think you jumped the shark for not doing something new and the critics who just cut and paste last year’s positive review will be too jaded to do it again. You’ll not only have a bad year, you might have a lot of ensuing bad years as well. Here we find Strunz has been composing Latin American flavored pieces that exist in their own sphere and don’t fit into the mien of what Strunz and Farah play. The good news is that he’s been keeping his chops up. The bad news---gotcha, there isn’t any. His craft operates at such a high level that he’s demolished the old comfort zone and crafted a parallel one. A winner throughout. 03/07/10
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