Is the British trio GoGo Penguin a victim of the ambient fashion and ” modern classical »? Everything Is Going to Be OKhis ninth album in eleven years, first makes us want to revisit his tasty first steps (marching bands2012, and v2.0, 2014), as the trio displayed their alert and sophisticated vision of jazz and groove instrumental. Now transferred to XXIM Records after a fruitful collaboration with Blue Note, the formation seems to have lost its bearings, torn between jazz, postminimalist influences and ambient. The musical composition of Nick Blacka (bass), Chris Illingworth (piano) and Jon Scott (drums) disappoints, while the trio seems more concerned with the comfort of its atmospheres than with harmonic, melodic and rhythmic progressions. Let’s be clear: everything is pretty in this album, from the cozy Glimmerings on the cover to the disembodied Sanctuary in conclusion, but no element of the album manages to rise from a music based on grooves generic and tasteless. In concert on May 10 at the Corona Theater.
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