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Saturn, Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Warm Embrace
Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2005
Track listing: Composition No. 316; Saturn, Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Warm Embrace; Goshawk.
Simulated Progress
By Fieldwork
Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2005
Track listing: Headlong; Transgression; Trips; Telematic; Media Studies; Gaudi; Transitions; Peril;
Reprise; Infogee Dub; Durations.
Fieldwork: Simulated Progress
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
The melodic hooks are not obvious. The harmonies are not lush or comforting. And the rhythms won't be easy to tap along with. But Fieldwork's Simulated Progress is not a free-form blast of notes from three soloists playing near each other. Instead it is a result of careful listening to bring disparate elements together, with room ...
Steve Lehman: Demian as Posthuman
by Paul Olson
Altoist Steve Lehman's quintet recording Artificial Light was one of last year's best albums, but Demian as Posthuman couldn't be more different. The mathematical-time compositions and bracing band dynamic of last year's release sounded utterly modern, but it was essentially a recording made by musicians playing in real time. The new release features some fine players, ...
Marc Ribot: Spiritual Unity
by Nenad Georgievski
Spiritual Unity is the latest effort by versatile virtuoso guitarist/composer Marc Ribot since Saints, from four years ago. He takes this opportunity to explore the legacy of Albert Ayler, one of the giants of free jazz. The new unit he gathered for this occasion, featuring drummer Chad Taylor, trumpeter Roy Campbell, and the legendary bassist Henry ...
Ribot/Campbell/Grimes/Taylor: Spiritual Unity
by Jeff Stockton
When Albert Ayler went down into the East River, he simply wouldn't have believed that after 35 years he would be held in the highest esteem and the subject of a genuine revival. He always wanted us to focus on the sound rather than the notes, but we weren't quite ready to receive his message: musical ...
Fieldwork: Simulated Progress
by Budd Kopman
Has anyone out there ever been totally flattened by a record from the first notes? It happens that Pi Recordings was present at a Rudresh Mahanthappa show last week, and I was able to pick up a copy of Fieldworks' Simulated Progress, which I listened to on the way home. “Flattened" is definitely ...
Fieldwork: Simulated Progress
by Paul Olson
It's hard to write about the collaborative trio Fieldwork. On their sophomore CD, Simulated Progress, pianist Vijay Iyer, altoist Steve Lehman, and drummer Elliot Humberto Kavee play a dazzling, intrepid sort of new jazz that's as deeply interactive as anything you're likely to hear this year. This is Lehman's first CD with the band (he takes ...
Marc Ribot: Spiritual Unity
by Mark Corroto
When you speak of the giants of free jazz--the signatories of its constitution, so to speak--you are obliged to include saxophonist Albert Ayler. But curiously enough, his immediately recognizable music, although revered, had no direct followers. His compositions have been covered, but not like those of John Coltrane or Ornette Coleman. Maybe he was too much ...
Rudresh Mahanthappa: Mother Tongue
by Ollie Bivens
The latest album by India-born saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa explores the connection between language and music, ancestry and contemporary American life. Continually asked by Americans, “Do you speak Indian?" or “Do you speak Hindu?", Mahanthappa has answered by basing the recording on the sounds of speech. With a population of one billion people and numerous ethnic groups, ...
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