After the demise of Jessamine in 1998, guitarist Rex Ritter and keyboardist Andy Brown formed a new band called Fontanelle. The quartet has played some shows around their Portland, Oregon base and slowly refined their sounds while settling on a permanent lineup.
Style Drift is the second full length LP from the Portland OR band Fontanelle. Like it's predecessors Style Drift was recorded at the band's Magnetic Park studio, where Fontanelle work their unique mix of instrumental improvisation and computer-aided arrangment. As a band, the quintet has forged a muscular, freaky groove; Style Drift has propulsion, edge and heft behind it.
Fontanelle takes drums, keyboards and guitars, tightens up the interplay and weaves taut patterns that touch on the liquidity of fusion jazz and the crystalline angles of IDM electronics. Melody and rhythm joust, then mingle without being reduced to chin-scratching exercises in chops-mongering or Pro Tools gimmickery.