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Jon Raskin: Quartet
Non fa eccezione il presente Quartet, nel quale prevale una certa vena cerebrale e cervellotica, arida e poco coinvolgente. Certo, gli spunti e i colpi d'ala non mancano [la notevole "African Tulip" avrebbe meritato miglior compagnia, così come i sei minuti impiastricciati di elettronica dell'iniziale "Cracked Earth"], ma nel complesso l'ascolto si rivela estenuante, frustrante, soprattutto quando il quartetto si accanisce in ossessive divagazioni timbriche. E non sorprende che a licenziare il disco sia la californiana Rastascan [della quale il batterista Gino Robair è il fondatore], le cui produzioni soffrono spesso di un certo approccio para-ideologico all'improvvisazione radicale.
Prosaicamente noioso.
Track Listing
1. Cracked Earth (Raskin) - 6:01; 2. Sound Barometer Reading 1 (Allbee/Raskin/Cremaschi/Robair) - 4:08; 3. African Tulip (Raskin) - 5:55; 4. Swing Sing (Allbee/Raskin/Cremaschi/Robair) - 2:12; 5. Kandinsky (Raskin) - 4:25; 6. Sound Barometer Reading 2 (Allbee/Raskin/Cremaschi/Robair) - 4:58; 7. Post Card 2 (Raskin) - 5:17; 8. Ceilometer Reading (Allbee/Raskin/Cremaschi/Robair) - 3:42; 9. Post Card 1 (Raskin) - 3:11; 10. Bleckner (Raskin) - 4:41; 11. Disdrometer Reading (Allbee/Raskin/Cremaschi/Robair) - 2:43; 12. Qupe (Raskin).
Personnel
George Cremaschi
bassLiz Allbee (tromba, percussioni); George Cremaschi (contrabbasso, elettronica); Jon Raskin (sassofoni); Gino Robair (batteria, elettronica).
Album information
Title: Quartet | Year Released: 2009 | Record Label: Rastascan Records
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