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Esa Pietil

Direct

By Esa Pietil

Label: Fiasko Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1.Mind Hunt 2.Headway 3.Direct 4.A Sign 5.So is... 6.Bumpy Down 7.Spring Flower 8.Purple Jungle 9.Freejohn 10.Strong till three 11.Point Zero 12.Triangles

Esa Pietil: Direct

by Matthew Wuethrich
May 11, 2003

When John Cage distilled sound into four elements-pitch, duration, timbre and loudness-he succinctly summed up many 20th century musicians’ attitudes towards music: sound itself matters more than the structure in which it resides. Cage’s approach was expressed in jazz by the '60s avant-garde. They rejected conventions like swing, bar lines and rigid solo formats in favor ...