Evolution

Daniel Rosenboom, trumpet and electronics

Daniel Rosenboom’s trumpet and electronics tour de force Evolution captures all the gravity of ’70s prog rock with a dramatic flair of Freddy Mercury-proportions. If the sampled electric guitar intro doesn’t get your adrenaline going, time to holdup a little mirror in front of your mouth—are you breathing? Seriously, Rosenboom goes for the jugular both rhythmically and melodically, running through time signatures like a box of Kleenex at an AA meeting. It makes me wonder what this would sound like as a concerto for trumpet, ditching the electronics for a live death metal band. And why not? The piece already comes with the obligatory three-movement construction. Someone get Bolt Thrower on the phone.

—RN