Visions (LP)
Matthew Tavares , Leland Whitty
Amoeba Review
When BADBADNOTGOOD’s Matthew Tavares and Leland Whitty collaborate on a new improvisational album, we all win. The genre-bending jazz-heads created Visions to be an immersive, emotional hour-long listening experience. With Tavares on piano and guitar, and Whitty on sax and flute, guests Julian Anderson-Bowes jams out on the bass and Matthew Chalmers wields the drumsticks. The result is a rich, raw partially-composed, partially-improvised record that boasts its vulnerability and intuitiveness as real strengths. Expect moments of avant-garde madness tempered by soft, gentle lyrical passages. As with all of this duo’s output, Visions has to be heard to be believed.