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Charlie Hunter and Bobby Previte as Groundtruther: Altitude
by Troy Collins
After three years and as many records, drummer Bobby Previte and guitarist Charlie Hunter bring their experimental trio project Groundtruther to a triumphant conclusion. Previte and Hunter have invited a rotating third member to play on each release; Latitude (Thirsty Ear, 2004) featured saxophonist Greg Osby, while Longitude (Thirsty Ear, 2005) starred DJ Logic. Keyboardist John ...
Charlie Hunter and Bobby Previte as Groundtruther: Altitude
by John Kelman
Like a three act play, guitarist Charlie Hunter and percussionist Bobby Previte's Groundtruther project saves the best for last. Latitude (Thirsty Ear, 2004) teamed them with intrepid saxophonist Greg Osby and while both Hunter and Previte have never been technologically challenged, it represented, individually, their most extreme integration of processing/sampling with conventional instrumentation. Likewise, Longitude (Thirsty ...
Matthew Shipp: Piano Vortex
by Mark Corroto
With about twenty years of recorded Matthew Shipp to consider these days, the pianist has grown, expanded his musical vision to include electronics, sampling, total freedom, and, interestingly, the piano jazz tradition. Following his solo effort One (2006) is this very intimate trio record. The spontaneous compositions of Shipp are accompanied by ...
Matthew Shipp: Piano Vortex
by Troy Collins
Since the turn of the millennium, pianist Matthew Shipp has ventured further into the realms of electro-acoustic jazz than many of his peers. An intrepid explorer, his open-minded approach to contemporary forms landed him the enviable position of curator for Thirsty Ear's “Blue Series." Shipp has documented a wide variety of projects for the label, from ...
Matthew Shipp: Piano Vortex
by Lyn Horton
The physical universe and spirit are indivisibly connected. To explain the dynamics that unifies them requires a language accessible to human perceptions. One of those languages is music. Matthew Shipp has elected to reveal how the universe and spirit interact musically in more ways than one. The endeavor to come out of a period ...
Matthew Shipp: Piano Vortex
by James Taylor
Jarring melodies, lively rhythms, electro-jazz-funk, and spoken word fusions--these are the things Matthew Shipp fans have come to associate with the pianist's music. Piano Vortex reminds us that Shipp is a master of his instrument in any format and not just a wily experimentalist, an avant-garde agitator or boundary busting bombast. With Joe Morris (bass) and ...
Daniel Bernard Roumain: Etudes4violin&electronix
by John Kelman
The vibrant Scandinavian music scene often suggests that anything is possible. Divergent styles and technologies regularly come together as new, cohesive and organic wholes. While this kind of experimentation is taking place on the west side of the Atlantic, demographics and a larger industrial machine drive such experimental music further underground. It's almost a certainty that ...
Daniel Bernard Roumain: Etudes4violin&electronix
by Mark Corroto
If you were drawing a musical continuum, classical music would certainly be placed quite a distance from hip- hop. Violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) turns that straight-line continuum into a circle, and in doing so merges the world of hip-hop and classical, plus rock, funk, and electronics. Ever since Stuff Smith stepped on a ...
Daniel Bernard Roumain: Etudes4violin&electronix
by Lyn Horton
The most profound thought that any human being can have is about being alive. How we express life hopefully motivates us “to do, not just “to be. It is a gift to be able to have a means to do. And the gift often comes forth in a product. The product, in this case, is music. ...
The Gang Font feat. Interloper: The Gang Font feat. Interloper
by Lyn Horton
The repetition of certain sounds prevails in the process of reaching a trance-like mental state. Repetition in music is also crucial to the spine of rhythmic construction. The mergence of these two functions adds up to a strange mix of sound-making, not altogether punk rock nor jazz, on Thirsty Ear's The Gang Font feat. Interloper. The ...
