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May 2005
by Glenn Astarita
Paul Dunmall/Paul Lytton/Stevie WishartIn Your Shell LikeEmanem2005 Prolific British tenor saxophonist Paul Dunmall recorded these sessions back in 2003 with improvising percussionist extraordinaire Paul Lytton and hurdy-gurdy performer Stevie Wishart. Ultimately, the majority of these five works illustrate the trio's fiercely powerful impetus. But the artists' counterbalance some of the ...
April 2005
by Glenn Astarita
Jethro Tull(DVD) Nothing Is Easy: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970Eagle Rock Entertainment2005 New limited edition DVD of the famed British rock band performing in front of 600,000 fans, which by all accounts represents the largest audience in the annals of pop. This wonderful footage highlights Tull's early stages, ...
March 2005
by Glenn Astarita
Adam GreenMoving AlongRough Trade2005 Think of a protest singer rolled into a Jim Morrison delivery, topped off with compositions that hearken similarities to pop icon Burt Bachrach. New York City singer/songwriter Adam Green sometimes conveys a mood of a torch singer iterating about drugs, sex and rock n' roll via ...
February 2005
by Glenn Astarita
Collective 4Tet Moving Along Leo Records The fifth recording by this quartet featuring eminent modern jazz bassist/composer William Parker is a cohesive improvisational foray, sometimes transmitting a liquefying effect. Trombonist Jeff Hoyer generally commandeers a sequence of motifs, sparked by a slightly turbulent group-based mode of attack. They do pick up ...
January 2005
by Glenn Astarita
eRikm & Fennesz Complementary Contrasts Donaueschingen 2003 hatOLOGY Two electronics/computer experimentalists go head on here. It's partly about coalescing for a union of eerie sounds and configurations recorded live and in the studio. Even for trained ears of electronica, you're bound to hear tones and manipulations that might seem novel. The ...
December 2004
by Glenn Astarita
Eugene Chadbourne The History Of The Chadbournes, Honky-tonk Im Nacht Lokal Leo Records Avant-garde guitarist Eugene Chadbourne offers a bizarre and often humorous slant on rockabilly music, featuring support from mandolinist Barry Mitterhoff and various jazz musicians. This CD is a culmination of live dates recorded between 1996 thru ...
November 2004
by Glenn Astarita
Matthew Shipp/William Parker/Guillermo E. Brown The Trio Plays Ware Splasc(H) Records Saxophonist David S. Ware's relevance as a composer is highlighted on this outing performed by his longstanding supporting trio. Pianist Matthew Shipp's climactic chord clusters sometimes mimic Ware's strenuous phrasings and complex means of building a melody. Anyone familiar with ...
October 2004
by Glenn Astarita
To The Stars Chick Corea Elektric Band Stretch Records After a several year hiatus, keyboardist Chick Corea reunites the Elektric Band for a set based upon the late L. Ron Hubbard's sci-fi tome To The Stars. And while re-groupings of this ilk sometimes reap advance skepticism, this outing might indeed reign as ...
September 2004
by Glenn Astarita
Cha Cha With The Hellboys The Hellboys Hellboys This independent release highlights the compositions of vocalist/guitarist Thomas Redmond. But it's more or less a union of the King Crimson crowd, featuring guitar hero Robert Fripp's soundscapes patented electronics on selected tracks. King Crimson bassist and fabled session man Tony Levin handles the ...
August 2004
by Glenn Astarita
Latitude Groundtruther (Charlie Hunter, Bobby Previte & Special Guest: Greg Osby) Thirsty Ear Three world-renowned jazz musicians and experimentalists coalesce for an album constructed upon funk beats, spacey synths and jazz inflected improv. It's the first of a proposed trilogy where guitarist Charlie Hunter and drummer Bobby Previte will add a special ...
