Marzio Scholten’s new album is fragile, alienating and sometimes moving music

Guitarist Marzio Scholten moves just as easily in jazz as in rock circles. He made as whimsical and intense instrumental music as Identikit and two years ago, together with Marien Dorleijn (Moss), he brought the strong, more rock-oriented The Stream from.

Noise is a temporary highlight in his work as an improviser. Scholten took layers of impressionistic-sounding guitar parts while improvising and stacked them into wonderfully beautiful pieces of music.

A string quartet and frayed guitar chords with a layer of noise bring you into a strange, not unpleasant dream in which the surreal atmosphere is reinforced by two beautiful text contributions. Spinvis sings poetically (‘Looking somewhere at boats on the sea’) and Nico Dijkshoorn closes musically (‘Every writer knows deep down that he is cheating’). They are also surrounded by disruptive guitar notes that stubbornly find their way. The question of whether this is still jazz is becoming less relevant every minute. It is fragile, alienating and sometimes moving music that could only have been created from a feeling of jazz and improvisation. Noise is not only available digitally, it is also available as a music cassette.