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Back to Electropolis Reviews Kelly Rossum Electropolis Let's get full disclosure out of the way right now: I did some freelance promo work for Electropolis's label earlier in the decade. Still, as Innova stopped leaving shoeboxes full of banknotes and cocaine on my doorstep long ago, I have nothing to gain by claiming that the guitarless, keyboardless jazz-funk quartet's first album boasts quite a bit more animal magnetism than most of the highbrow nonprofit's releases. But it does, as well as offering far more body heat than the band's handle suggests. Much of the totally improvised recording's feral appeal lies in its free and easy way with effects processors, to the extent that, on the up-tempo stomper "Sailing the Flat Earth," you can't always tell exactly who's doing what. Given that bassist Michael O' Brien and drummer Steve Roehm are occupied with providing velocity and punch enough to keep saxophonist Michael Ferrier's foamy buzz and trumpeter Kelly Rossum's abstract mute attack afloat, the track's sinister surf-spy riff is clearly the handiwork of some sneaky-pants engaged in pitch-shifted double duty. Creepy-crawly "Recliner" finds the band's machine work considerably less ghostly, with Rossum wailing in the upper register, then twiddling the delayed output until it resembles a chorus of Tyrannosaurus rexes. Rod Smith City Pages Vol 26, Issue 1304, PUBLISHED 11/30/05 Read Next Review