Scraffiti is a mix - frantic free jazz to lyrical tunes, some of which are written, some of which just emerged on the day. The moods swing from gentle yearning, through buoyant optimism, to jerking dislocated beats that rattle your bones.

16 MP3 Songs in this album (46:27) !
Related styles: Jazz: Free Jazz, Avant Garde: Free Improvisation, Instrumental

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"The music is really great - modern, innovative and experimenting. That's because it absolutely fits our radio programme."

Paulius Sluškonis
KTU radio station "Gaudeamus"
Web: http://www.gaudeamus.fm
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What do you call this stuff?
The word âfreeâ is in there somewhere, certainly..but âfreeâ what?
Is it âfree jazzâ?
Well, yes, there is plenty of free jazz in there â rasping, jerking, twitching, full-on electrocution stuff, if thatâs your thingâ¦

But what? Well â there are â tunes as well; and mellow chilled out bits, and regular grooves, and tender little melodies that ache like little pop-songs.

OK â but itâs all improvised, isnât it? Canât you just call it âfree improvisationâ?

Ummm.. not quite â there is a little written stuff sneaked in there, and â well â it just doesnât sound like free improvisation. It sounds â well, like something else. Hard to pick out one thing, though.

So where does âfreeâ come in?

Itâs there because the band plays what they want, with a sense of fun â improvising without precondition, without an aesthetic agenda, other than what they share together as common taste. So maybe it's free, just a little, at the core - free to be melodic, free to be un-melodic, free to be abstract, free to groove, free to break down into fractured pieces of noise, free to riff. And if others have different notions of 'free', that's fine too.

âScraffitiâ emerged one warm summerâs day, in a makeshift studio. It is full of the moods of the moment, shifting like the clouds that scuttled by that day. âThe lyricism and interplay on some pieces make it sound as if it's thoroughly rehearsed or at least pre-conceived, but apparently notâ; this is how Splatterâs last album, âMusic for Misanthropesâ was reviewed by Stef Gijssels, yet it might be an equally accurate description of âScraffitiâ. Even although Splatter have included five tracks with written material, the other eleven improvised tracks seemed to emerge fully formed, ranging from the languid âHigh Plainsâ where time almost seems suspended, to the frenetic quick-fire interchange of âAlarums & Excursionsâ where every second is charged with frantic urgency.