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Metal Rat

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Coming To Meet; Ch'ien; Turn; Damp(ness); Is Thick With; Dry(ist); Metal Rat; Hidden Lines; Fire Monkey; Their Blood is Black and Yellow.

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Russ Lossing - Mat Maneri - Mark Dresser: Metal Rat

Read "Metal Rat" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Come riferito nelle note di copertina, il CD è il risultato di un'intensa seduta di registrazione di poche ore. Non si puo' che rimanere colpiti, quindi, dalla forte intesa tra i tre musicisti. Mark Dresser, con il suo arco trascinante e profondo, quando non percussivo, e con i suoi pizzicati solidi e incalzanti risulta essere il ...

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Russ Lossing / Mat Maneri / Mark Dresser: Metal Rat

Read "Metal Rat" reviewed by Troy Collins


A focused session of collective free improvisation conceived by pianist Russ Lossing, Metal Rat features the spontaneous interplay of three sympathetic musicians. Joined by violist Mat Maneri and bassist Mark Dresser, Lossing booked a recording studio for a mere four hours to instill a “real sense of urgency" to the proceedings. The ensuing session benefits from ...

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Russ Lossing / Mat Maneri / Mark Dresser: Metal Rat

Read "Metal Rat" reviewed by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio


Much has been said about brevity by men who were anything but. Now, art benefits from aesthetic and compositional purity--no unnecessary lines, no superfluous words, no ostentatious displays of skill--but it is usually a byproduct of a brilliant work, not the sole purpose. Pianist Russ Lossing, violist Mat Maneri and bassist Mark Dresser manage dexterously to ...

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Russ Lossing: Metal Rat

Read "Metal Rat" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Metal Rat is a triumph from beginning to end. Along with pianist/leader Russ Lossing, violist Mat Maneri and bassist Mark Dresser have created a work of terrifying intensity and concentration of purpose that is engaging at many levels, simultaneously manifesting a steely ferocity that is nevertheless almost unbearably beautiful. The ten tracks have ...


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