Brainkiller - Colourless Green Superheroes (2013)

American pianist / keyboard player Jacob Koller, American trombonist Brian Allen and Argentinean-born drummer Hernan Hecht return as Brainkiller (in origin a pun on the combined names of Brian Allen and Jacob Koller) to release Colourless Green Superheroes , their second full-length album on RareNoiseRecords, after The Infiltration , released in 2010. Colourless Green Superheroes (The title of the album itself is a pun on Noam Chomsky s grammatically sound but meaningless statement Colourless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously ) continues and elaborates themes only sketched, hinted at by their previous release: We witness again beautifully tight compositions ( they never deviate from a damn good tune said Jazzwise), which again draw inspiration from multiple genres (free jazz, early 70 s jazz-rock, world-jazz, contemporary classical music, concrete music) and influences, but have here been expanded and enriched, at times by the addition of layers of electronica to achieve a form of electro-acoustic trip-hop (witness the presence of Japanese electronica goddess Coppe on the track Empty Words ) and at times by the three musicians flirting with entirely new genres (such as the disco-dance beat and musical themes that pervade the song Labratorio ). The album feels like a journey into a musical Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, each of the thirteen compositions a fully formed world onto itself, yet smoothly flowing into the next one, all supported by an all-encompassing sense of humour and wonderment for the beauty of music.