‘Salute the Parrot’ sees Maurice Louca draw together myriad musical and cultural sources under what may feasibly be described as a pan-cultural collision. But his manipulations are dextrous and deft, and the result is a remarkably coherent work that’s both exploratory and innovative. Martial drums rattle through a serpentine musical motif on the hypnotic ‘Maxim’ and without question, it’s the beats tat dominate, but Louca’s got a whole lot more game than simply a bucketful of exciting polyrhthms.
Over the course of this wildly inventive album fluid arabesques swirl hypnotically, wild horns shriek unsettlingly on the discordant mantra of ‘It Will Set’ and bangra beats and a smorgasbord of exotica entwine on the busy ‘Spineless’, and indeed, sprawl and swirl across the album as a whole.
Louca demonstrates the kind of inventiveness and cross-pollenation that keeps music alive and evolving. And for that alone, we should all salute him and the parrot.
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