Vintage Astronaut - It Was the Future (2021)

It Was the Future is the six release by North Carolina-based “experimental progressive jazz trio” Vintage Astronaut. To the credit of the trio’s leader John Daniel Ray, the the music is taken up by heavy electronics and funky bass grooves, alongside keyboard and synth improvisations from Michael Kinchen.

All of this is underpinned by a consistently strong rhythmic backbone from Jonathan Collin Greene. In fact, Greene’s fast-paced, occasionally aggressive drumming is often overwhelming – moving in directions that are sometimes at odds with where the music on the whole seems to be heading.