Organ Donor - Malplacé [Thanatosis produktion - 2023]Organ Donor’s brand of improvisation extends from compositional spontaneity to genre-hopping, which is something that might be new to some listeners (at least it was to me). Malplacé is comprised of six tracks taken from a live set a few years back, and sees some pretty weird and great moments, the highlight of which is the second song, “Touch”, which save for a bleeting sax, would be right at home in the field of indie rock – metronomic, heavy bass, lilting clean electric guitar, you get the point. This makes what might otherwise feel like a kind of predictable album of electroacoustic free improvisation from becoming just that. It doesn’t last, for whatever reason, which might be a sacrifice to the gods of chance, or just a wild idea that went somewhere and never stuck in the end.
The remaining elements of the improv genre remain relatively unmarred, which I guess effectively balances out the odd forray into repetition and calculable rhythm. Who knows? The structure of repeated attack with little decay is right there on the final track, “Sci-Fi Marmots”, like a cozy blanket, if you are weened on all things free. I think this was a missed opportunity, to peak around the bend and maybe get lost in the minutiae of pattern recognition, but Organ Donor’s will is not singular. What does manage to stand out, nonetheless, is the shear breadth of free improv on hand, which doesn’t so much remake the home as rearrange its furniture.
For fans of free jazz, electroacoustic improv, and even the little 90s kid in all of us who like to nod along. To find out more   Colin Lang
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