Photo: Laal Shams
Considering that bassist-composer Eivind Opsvik excels at a plaintive, placid sort of jazz-pop fusion, you’d hardly expect the imprint he runs to embrace metal. But two discs recently issued by Opsvik’s Loyal Label—I Don’t Hear Nothin’ but the Blues by saxist Jon Irabagon and drummer Mike Pride (reviewed in this week’s TONY) and the self-titled debut by Seabrook Power Plant (recently featured on the Volume)—are not only among the year’s finest experimental releases, they’re also among the heaviest. That intensity came to the fore over consecutive nights at local release parties for each record, as Irabagon and Pride, above, hit Cornelia Street Café on Monday, and Seabrook Power Plant played Zebulon the following evening.
