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Sonic Fiction

Sonic Fiction

By Matthew Shipp

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2018
Track listing: First Step; Blues Addition; The Station; Lines of Energy; Easy Flow; The Problem of Jazz; The Note; 3 by 4; Cell in the Brain; Sonic Fiction.

Matthew Shipp: Sonic Fiction

by Don Phipps
October 28, 2018

Prolific composer and pianist Matthew Shipp demonstrates his craft on Sonic Fiction, an album chock full of bluesy, quirky, sonic landscapes that suggest a late-night visit to a Tom Waits' greasy spoon diner or a starless midnight walk along a creaky fisherman's wharf. Shipp gives his talented cohorts, Mat Walerian on clarinet and sax, Michael Bisio ...

Sonic Fiction

By Georg Graewe

Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Alien corn I; Alien corn II; Alien corn III; Fibulation; Aspects of somnambulism/Demure scuttle; Aspects of somnambulism/sleepwalker; Fangled talk; Masting.

Georg Graewe/Ernst Reijseger/Gerry Hemingway: Sonic Fiction

by Marc Medwin
March 6, 2008

This long-standing and prolific international trio's debut finally gets the reissue treatment. Still quite active and stylistically amorphous, the group's first statement remains a bold one, establishing a collective aesthetic that defied boundary and categorization while making its place in history clear. The second part of “Alien Corn" is as fine a point of departure as ...

Powerful Medicine

By Sonic Fiction

Label: Tall Poppies
Released: 2005
Track listing: Powerful Medicine; It's Only a Matter of Time; South-Westerly Change; Rock Garden; On the Crest; Evening's Greeting; Blue Thing; J.F.P.; Pendulum; Lost in the Translation

Sonic Fiction: Powerful Medicine

by John Kelman
April 14, 2005

Sometimes location is everything. Vibraphonist/percussionist Daryl Pratt was originally born in the States, but he relocated to Australia in the '80s, where he has enjoyed a full career as performer, composer, and educator. But while he's well-known in his part of the world, he's less so elsewhere. One wonders where he'd be today had he remained ...

Changing with The Times

By Sonic Fiction

Label: Naxos Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Finlayson St 7; Changing With the Times; Ringing Changes; The Greenway; 35 Today; The Rest; Dark Prelude; Mind Games; Remember; Tower; Street Scene

Sonic Fiction: Changing with The Times

by Glenn Astarita
July 1, 1999

Sonic Fiction is a Sydney, Australia based unit and quoting from the press release “.... Changing With The Times reflects the band's meshing of new western art music, jazz and rock with geographical musical threads from Ghana, South India and Java." A fair summarization indeed; although, to their credit, Sonic Fiction incorporates some of the finer ...

Powerful Medicine

By Sonic Fiction

Label: Tall Poppies
Released: 1996