Label: Eremite Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Connecting With The Divine; Lofty Flight; Root & Branch; Offering to the Exalted One; Soft Flowing Waters.

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Alan Silva: Alan Silva & the Sound Visions Orchestra

by Derek Taylor
May 1, 2001

As the inaugural group for the 1999 Vision Festival, following closely on the heels of Joseph Jarman’s vocal invocation, Alan Silva’s Sound Visions Orchestra seemed the ideal vehicle to usher in the ten celebratory days of community-empowering creative music. Employing many of many of the festival’s performers and signaling the triumphant culmination of Silva’s ambitious plans ...

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Alan Silva & Oluyemi Thomas: Transmissions

Read "Transmissions" reviewed by Derek Taylor

by Derek Taylor
February 1, 2001

The practice of harping long and loud on the lack of public notoriety or understanding afforded creative improvising musicians has become an almost customary tack in reportage of the music. A “resignation to obscurity” mindset prevails among many producers, listeners and even musicians that this is orphic status is simply their lot in life. Still the ...

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Alan Silva and Oluyemi Thomas: Transmissions

Read "Transmissions" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
February 1, 2001

Having come full circle, bassist Alan Silva returns to his roots on Transmissions. Silva's experience with seminal improvisers since the '60s has earned him a resume that reads like an international who's who of free improvisation. (Ironically, however, he has not received recognition proportional to his work.) Silva discovered electronics in the '90s and seized the ...

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