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Elliott Sharp: Sharp? Monk? Sharp! Monk!
by Mark Corroto
Elliott Sharp might have once been described as a skinny kid from Cleveland, Ohio who has come to steal your women and drink your beer. But that, my friends, was a long time ago. A graduate of the New York Downtown scene of the 1980s and 1990s, Sharp has branched out into string quartets, hard-core blues, ...
String Quartets: 1986-1996
Label: Tzadik
Released: 2003
Track listing: Lumen; Digital; Tessalation Row; Diurnal; Ringtoss; Hammer Anvil Stirrup; Shapeshifters; Twistmap
Elliott Sharp: String Quartets: 1986-1996
by Farrell Lowe
One of the epigrams from composer Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies notes that “repetition is a form of change" and that sort of idea is at the core of E#'s concepts in relation to this recording of string quartets--but it is a form of repetition that mutates like an old Delta blues. Consider the guitar work of ...
Elliott Sharp's "Terraplane": Blues For Next
by Glenn Astarita
Blues For Next is the newly released two CD set by New York City downtown scene guitar god Elliott Sharp, as this recording bespeaks a bit of a diversion from the guitarist’s usual blend consisting of hard-core prog-rock/modern jazz and EFX based stylizations. On disc one, subtitled “Plus”, the guitarist utilizes the vocal talents of Eric ...
