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Assif Tsahar / Cooper-Moore / Chad Taylor: Digital Primitives
As a listener, you have to be willing to go where Cooper-Moore takes you, as Tsahar and Taylor are inclined to do. But while the trio executes the slow march of "Bones and the 1970s sitcom-theme funk of "Misanthropes with expected skill and effortlessly moves from the second-line Meters-rhythm of "Turn it Up to explore the atonality of "Money Wars, it's the unconventional tracks that make this group special.
The amplified diddley-bow and breakbeat of "Human Interface ; the static, doings and whirs that encircle Tsahar's wheezing tenor on "Electric Garden ; and the title track, with didgeridoo mumbling in the background and a distorted mouth bow crying like a saw, all allow dissonance to rise organically from the mix and embellish the established rhythms.
Best of all, however, might be "Ol' Saint Peter, where Cooper-Moore's lyrics wed the heavenly with the earthly and jaunty bango strumming, topped off by a lovely Tsahar tenor overdub, carries his megaphoned singing voice along. It whets your appetite for Cooper-Moore Plays and Sings the Standards.
Track Listing
Turn it Up; Ol' Saint Peter; Human Interface; Electric Garden; Bones; Digital Primitives; Misanthropes; True to Life; Money Wars; Refuge; Back it Up.
Personnel
Assif Tsahar
saxophoneCooper-Moore: diddley bow, mouth bow, bango, voice; Assif Tsahar: tenor sax, bass clarinet, didgeridoo; Chad Taylor: drums, percussion.
Album information
Title: Digital Primitives | Year Released: 2007 | Record Label: Hopscotch Records
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