“That is some damn good neat reggae. If you are a musician, that should have raised your eyebrow, and if you are just somebody who is cool, I bet it made you feel cooler.”
“Rather wonderful this skazz musical homage to the Skatalites’ Don Drummond (1932-1969) - a labour of love that includes some remixes by dub pioneer Lee Perry (who passed away in 2021) played by a superb collection of jazz players fronted by Swiss …”
“The Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser is also a satellite in this cosmos, a constant traveler between genres, constantly on the road, always on the way to new shores, a free spirit who mixes again and again with the most diverse musical worlds. ”
“From Mangelsdorff, Thelin and Rutherford, to Connie and Johannes Bauer, the European free music scene has produced some of the most extraordinary trombonists in jazz and improvised music. Samuel Blaser (b. 1981) seems destined to join that line”
“Cette musique multiséculaire qui, revitalisée par un vocabulaire et une syntaxe contemporains, invente une nouvelle forme d´harmonie, élégante et expressive, nous ramène à un Moyen Âge murmuré, sans doute fantasmé, dont son caractère intimiste nous rapproche.”
“...Blaser’s brightly textured brass sorties complemented French guitarist Marc Ducret’s tense, inwardly-focused passages that bled to inaudibility as he turned off the amplification at one point, while Danish drummer Peter Bruun maintained an upbeat range of criss-crossing textures...”
“In un lavoro fondamentalmente di gruppo, tutti i singoli non mancano di farsi apprezzare. In particolare, accanto al leader, brillano il pianoforte di Lossing (unico reduce del precedente quartetto) e i clarinetti di Badenhorst, ma anche Drew Gress ha modo di mettersi in luce sia al pizzicato (“Linea”) che all’archetto (“Bohemia”).”
“...Oder im Trio von Posaunist Samuel Blaser, der (u. a. mit Gitarrist Marc Ducret) Themenlinien genussvoll dekonstruiert und doch immer sinnlichen, expressiven Appeal spüren lässt...”