Balancing Tear, by Mako Sica & Hamid Drake

Balancing Tear

by Mako Sica & Hamid Drake

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	1.	Trapeze 07:39
	2.	The Unknown 12:23
	3.	Enchanted City 05:42
	4.	Trapeze / Maku (live) 13:57

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April 17th marks the release date of Chicago free-rock trio Mako Sica's new album recorded with the legendary percussionist extraordinaire Hamid Drake. "Balancing Tear" will be released by Instant Classic (EU), Astral Spirits and Feeding Tube (US). It contains four brand new tracks, a mix of studio and live recordings, awash with calmly oceanic passages, interspersed with compressed and feverish form-blurts.

As Feeding Tube's Byron Coley states, "recorded once again at Chicago's Electrical Audio, the album begins with passages worthy of Morricone's western soundtracks, but the action mutates with rapid surety. There’s a track that will make you think of a micro-dosed Vic Damone singing balled for the Sephardic Justice Society with chunky, obtuse piano accompaniment recalling the work of Chris Abrahams (Necks). There are stretches of proggy soundtracky expansion with muted trumpet and deep bass roiling that make me think of Mark Cunningham's superb electro-jazz combo, Blood Quartet. There are even shadows of tango that emerge in places like sharks' fins breaching."

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released April 17, 2020

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Instant Classic Kraków, Poland

Instant Classic is an indie label set up by two friends who share the love of music. Most of our releases are limited. We do not pay attention to genres, we release only the tunes we love.

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