Review: Web Web - Kover Kover (Compost Records)

Web Web are making a habit of musically kicking you in the solar plexus as the Munich based fusion jazz group 'Kover Kover' scores even more than Bayern's Harry Kane! 

Exactly a year ago, Compost Records released Web Web's 'Plexus Plexus' featuring. JJ Whitefield (see review HERE) following 'WEB MAX II' (see review HERE) came out a couple of years earlier but this is their seventh album in total and arguably their best yet!

Why 'arguably'?  Well, they're taken the well-worn route of doing an album of cover version of popular tunes in thier own jazz style; most recently seen with Jazz Sabbath as they focus on Black Sabbath's back catalog as a quasi-tribute band.

Web Web, are not that insular, albeit they do cover Sabb's 'chill-out' classic 'Planet Caravan', with the core of Roberto Di Gioia (Fender Rhodes, Piano, Organ, Synthesizers, Percussion), Tony Lakaos(Flute, Altoflute, Soprano- and Tenorsaxofone), Christian Von Kaphengst (Upright Bass, Fender Jazzbass) and Pete Gall (drums, keys)

So can you imagine how good this sounds when they can sound like Weather Report doing a cover version of 'Slave To The Rhythm'! But they don't stop with just Grace Jones and Black Sabbath, they've dug deep into Nirvana ('Come As You Are') Klaus Doldinger, Jimi Hendrix ('Burning Of The Midnight Lamp'), Talking Heads ('Once In A Lifetime'), Grandbrothers, Dave Pike (Big Schlepp), Empire Of The Sun, Joe Jackson ('Steppin‘ Out'), Eurythmics ('Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)'), Kruder & Dorfmeister as their interpretations sound like Web Web originals; talk about making 'standards' their own, Web Web have truly eclipsed some of the originals.

It's a shame some of the tracks are so shtort but 'We Are The People', 'High Noon' and 'Slave To The Rhythm' make up for that but perhaps there's some plans for 12" longer versions? (Ed. wishfull thinking at the moment) but after 10 years on concentrating singularly on thier own compositions, this is a massive 14 track album that's full of twists ('Once In A Lifetime' is not the dancefloor monster you might have second guessed at) and turns ('Big Schepp' goes even more Cathedral-space-mod) so that by the end, all you slaves to the rhythm will be thinking, 'Album Of The Year'!

PS. If you're very quick there's a special offer on Bandcamp to purchase all of their 7 albums including 'Kover Kover'.

BUY LINK / PRE-ORDER: https://compostrecords.lnk.to/WebWeb-KoverKover

P.S. Cover artwork by Jan Steins.

Artist: WEB WEB 

Title: Kover Kover

Release date: 24th April, 2026

Label : Compost Records

Catalog Number :  CPT 677

Format: Vinyl LP / Digital / Bandcamp  

Review: Web Web - Plexus Plexus (Compost Records)

This is like a kick in the Solar Solar Plexus as the contemporary fusion jazz group based in Munich are back on Compost with a new album. 

The original band, now Max Herre(less) after the album, 'WEB MAX II' (see review HERE) came out a couple of years ago but we know the key members of the band have kept busy.

Roberto Di Gioia (keys, bass, drums, percussion) with Peter Kruder (see review HERE), Pete Gall (drums, keys) on the album 'Love Avatar' (see review HERE), Tony Lakatos (tenor sax, flute) and Christian Von Kaphengst (bass, keys) plus featured guest, JJ Whitefield on guitar (he of 'The Infinity Of Nothingness' - see review HERE) on Jazzman Records. 

And talking of Jazzman, this has an overall feel of their 'Spiritual Jazz' compilation series with nods to Lonnie Liston Smith jazz-funk period, the Mr Scruff popularisation of Moondog's 'Bird's Lament' (their cover version of the original is great), Mulatu with more than healthy dose of Sun Ra Arkestra's (in all forms) along with Jimi Tenor.

Put all that in a massive 14 track album and you're close to an 'Album Of The Year'!

BUY LINK: Plexus Plexus | Web Web

Artist: WEB WEB ft. JJ Whitefield

Title: Plexus Plexus

Release date: 25th April, 2025

Label : Compost Records

Catalog Number :  CPT 653 

Format: LP / Digital / Bandcamp