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Optometry

Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2002
Track listing: Ibid, Desmarches, Ibid; Reactive Switching Strategies For The Control Of Uninhibited Air; Variation Cybermatique Pataphysic (Part I); Asphalt (Tome II); Optometry; Sequentia Absentia (Dialectical Triangulation I); Rosemary; Dementia Absentia (Dialectical Triangulation II); Parachutes; Absentia Absentia (Dialectical Triangulation III); Variation Cybernetique: Rhythmic Pataphysic (Part I); Periphique; It

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DJ Spooky: Optometry

Read "Optometry" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Thirsty Ear’s Blue Series surges onward in a futuristic mode with this latest installment, featuring turntable guru DJ Spooky’s melding of EFX, rap, funk, free jazz and more. Drummer Billy Martin of Medeski, Martin & Wood notoriety chips in, along with an artist known as “Priest” and a conglomerate of New York City based modern jazz ...

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DJ Spooky: Optometry

Read "Optometry" reviewed by Mark Corroto


The integration of DJ culture into jazz was inevitable. But then, Jazz has always adopted popular forms of music. For instance, it took on rock in the 1960s with much debatable results. There is good fusion and bad fusion, as with all forms of jazz it comes down to creative ideas and musicianship. As jazz and ...


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