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The Poison Cabinet: Dark Embrace
by Robert Spencer
Prepare to enter the Dark Side. If you succumb to the Poison Cabinet's cassette Dark Embrace, you will enter a world of darkness and distance, of shimmering midnight deserts and haunted desolate spaces. The dry and lushly acrid vocals of Louise Petts will beckon you further as she enunciates, crisply and patiently, the arch and ethereal ...
The Poison Cabinet: Dark Embrace
by Robert Spencer
Prepare to enter the Dark Side. If you succumb to the Poison Cabinet's cassette Dark Embrace, you will enter a world of darkness and distance, of shimmering midnight deserts and haunted desolate spaces. The dry and lushly acrid vocals of Louise Petts will beckon you further as she enunciates, crisply and patiently, the arch and ethereal ...
Ellery Eskelin: Five Other Pieces (+2)
by Robert Spencer
Tenor saxophonist Ellery Eskelin just keeps getting better. On this disc he explores some of the music that has mattered to him over the years, and it's a wide range: from Mahavishnu John McLaughlin's “The Dance of Maya" through Coltrane's “India," Lennie Tristano's “April," and even George Gershwin's “Prelude II." In the liner notes Eskelin says, ...
Parker / Beresford / Edwards / Moholo: Foxes Fox
by Robert Spencer
Foxes Fox is a relatively rare opportunity to hear master improvising saxophonist Evan Parker in the company of a pianist, although these opportunities are increasing of late: since 1995 he has recorded in a quartet setting with Marilyn Crispell ( Natives and Aliens, Leo) and in duets with Agustí Fernández ( Tempranillo, Nova Era) and George ...
ICP Orchestra: Jubilee Varia
by Robert Spencer
Misha Mengelberg has never gotten the recognition he deserves; this new release from his ICP (Instant Composers Pool) Orchestra is yet another indication of how much recognition he does indeed deserve. Mengelberg is a premier pianist with a superb skill for instant composition. He manages to create coherent wholes out of the sounds of utter surprise. ...
Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Low Profile
by Robert Spencer
The Spontaneous Music Ensemble consisted of a shifting cast of characters centered around the late lamented percussionist John Stevens; here he's joined by violinist Nigel Coombes, cellist Colin Wood (on two tracks), and guitarist Roger Smith (on one track). Thus all of these tracks are interplays of strings of various textures with percussion. Most of this ...
John Wolf Brennan / Gene Coleman / Christian Wolfarth: Momentum
by Robert Spencer
This trio of pianist John Wolf Brennan, bass clarinetist Gene Coleman, and percussionist Christian Wolfarth are mainly interested on this disc in exploring sounds and textures and various possibilities of rhythm and dynamics. The Momentum of the title is honest and hard-won, for these performers are not relying on the already-realized potentials of steady rhythms for ...
The Ganelin Trio: Con Affetto
by Robert Spencer
The Ganelin Trio created some of the best improvised music ever played in the old Soviet Union, which you may think is like saying they're the best country music singers in the Metropolitan Opera company until you hear this disc. Recorded live in Moscow in 1983, this performance consists of Ganelin's fifty-seven minute “Semplice," plus three ...
Lol Coxhill: Alone and Together
by Robert Spencer
Lol Coxhill is little-known but he is actually one of the first saxophonists to perform solo, and this disc contains the twenty-two minute “Festival Solo," a piece for soprano - Coxhill's saxophone of choice - that shows his range, imagination, and architectonic power. But there is much more here as well. The discs begins with Coxhill ...
Myra Melford: Above Blue / The Same River, Twice
by Robert Spencer
Myra Melford's piano is a welter of extraordinary activity, although unlike some other players with her power, even when her playing is at its most furious it always seems to be melodically, not percussively, rooted. She is once again surrounded on this disc by cutting-edge modern jazz players, especially trumpeter Dave Douglas and reedman Chris Speed. ...
