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Low Down Music
By Manfred Kniel and his Reduction Quartet
Label: Neos
Released: 2011
Track listing: Burgermusi; Naiv, Tief Und Grausig-Schön; Miss Blue; Eklat; Free 'n' Open; Pozilei; Klagelied; Schneefelder II.
Allurements of the Ellipsoid
Label: Neos
Released: 2011
Track listing: CD1: Allurement 1; Allurement 2. CD2: Allurement 3; Allurement 4.
Otomo Yoshihide Quartet: Allurements of the Ellipsoid
by Mark Corroto
The minimalist improvisation of Otomo Yoshihide's Quartet, assembled for the 2005 Donaueschinger Music Festival, delivers a thoroughly abstract sound that could never be described as obtuse. This coming together of heavyweight improvisers yielded two discs--one, a studio session and the other, a live performance--recorded over three days. Those familiar with the genius of Yoshihide's ...
Manfred Kniel and his Reduction Quartet: Low Down Music
by Nic Jones
Drummer Manfred Kniel has leadership status on this release, and all the compositions are his. But this is also, perhaps, the key to the music's shortcomings, especially when the rhythmic vitality the leader habitually imparts is not matched by some other equally compelling element. His sly and sometimes witty melodic sense seems often to be a ...