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Hartmut Geerken & The Art Ensemble Of Chicago: Zero Sun No Point
by Mark Corroto
For over thirty years the band known as The Art Ensemble of Chicago has been practicing the art of sampling. Sampling has, until very recent history, not been an accepted musical form. As a listening public, we now find general acceptance with cut and spliced sounds in popular music and television. The AEC has practiced this art form for well over thirty years. Theirs is not tape and digital sample as much as it is samples from the African experience ...
read moreHartmut Geerken/John Tchicai/Famoudou Don Moye: Cassava Balls
by Robert Spencer
Hartmut Geerken, John Tchicai, and Famoudou Don Moye are all masters of improvisation and of deeply-felt music that smolders with passionate zeal. This disc was recorded live at the Praxis '85" festival in Athens, Greece on May 8, 1985, a night when, by the sound of things, each man was in thorough musical command.
They begin at the absolute height, and then fill the rest of the night with other colors. The opening track, Patriotic Poem Number One Forty Years ...
read moreHartmut Geerken / John Tchicai / Famoudou Don Moye: Cassava Balls
by Robert Spencer
Hartmut Geerken, John Tchicai, and Famoudou Don Moye are all masters of improvisation and of deeply-felt music that smolders with passionate zeal. This disc was recorded live at the Praxis '85" festival in Athens, Greece on May 8, 1985, a night when, by the sound of things, each man was in thorough musical command.
They begin at the absolute height, and then fill the rest of the night with other colors. The opening track, Patriotic Poem Number One Forty Years ...
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