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Roscoe Mitchell: Dots - Pieces For Percussion And Woodwinds
Mitchell, active since the 1960s, has performed solo both alone and as part of The Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble which later morphed into Art Ensemble Of Chicago. He introduced his invention, a percussion cage made up of cymbals, bells, toys, whistles and various found objects. The solo performances captured on Solo Saxophone Concerts (Sackville, 1974), Sound Songs (Delmark, 1997), Solo 3 (Mutable, 2003) and here are a kind of sound distillation. Mitchell is refining musical notes by purifying and extracting the essence of sound. Those sounds from his straight soprano saxophone are anything but brutish, they are bird song or whale soundings. The gongs and objects struck reverberate in the same way wind might impact on objects in the natural world. This is meditative music. It is spacious and imperturbable with Mitchell as merely the conduit for unadulterated sound.
Track Listing
Slow Ride One; Slow Ride Two; Glide and Run; Skip; Hey; Oops; Light Green; Vast Horizons; Shimmer; Clang; Startle; Dots; Let’s Go There; Do The Dang Thing; Boom Ba; Click; Now The Color Blue; Moving Bell; Silence.
Personnel
Roscoe Mitchell
saxophoneAdditional Instrumentation
Roscoe Mitchell: percussion.
Album information
Title: Dots - Pieces For Percussion And Woodwinds | Year Released: 2021 | Record Label: Wide Hive Records
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