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Matthew Shipp: Piano Sutras
by John Sharpe
Wikipedia tells us that in ancient Indian literature, the term sutra denotes a distinct type of literary composition, based on short aphoristic statements. Similarly concise motifs lie at the heart of many of the selections on Matthew Shipp's eighth solo album Piano Sutras. It's a measure of the American's place in the pianistic pantheon that he ...
Matthew Shipp: Piano Sutras
by Mark Corroto
There is a sort of primitivism that can be found at the edges of advanced physics and mathematics. The same sort of primitivism is at the heart of pianist Matthew Shipp's music. Just as one can speak of the sweet science (or art) of boxing, the pianist plays with a violent beauty.Piano Sutras is ...
Dawn of Midi: Dysnomia
by Mark F. Turner
The script gets flipped in Dysnomia, where calculated syncopations are not generated from laptops or patched-in devices but produced by the post-minimalist acoustic trio Dawn of Midi, paying homage to electronica with 46 minutes of methodically composed music. But then again what is music? As defined by Merriam-Webster: it is a science or art of ordering ...
Dawn Of Midi Announces Release Of "Dysnomia" Out August 6th, 2013 On Thirsty Ear Recordings
“Cannot urge you more strongly: go see Dawn of Midi” – Sasha Frere-Jones, The New Yorker “An unplugged translation of contemporary electronica…state-of-the-art.” – Time Out NY “Seriously never seen anything like these guys.” – Jad Abumrad, Radiolab Thirsty Ear Recordings is excited to announce the release of Dawn of Midi‘s sophomore full-length Dysnomia, out August 6th, ...
Matthew Shipp: Greatest Hits
by Harry S. Pariser
"Greatest Hits" compilations are not releases normally associated with jazz musicians, and especially not with pianist as decidedly avant-garde as Matthew Shipp.Shipp explains that “My impetus for creating this CD was that I have a vast catalogue which I don't think the jazz world has started to absorb yet. I selected the tunes by ...
Matthew Shipp: Greatest Hits
by John Sharpe
It takes more than a degree of chutzpah for any modern day jazzer to title a collection Greatest Hits, let alone a doyen of the avant-garde. But pianist Matthew Shipp has never shied away from controversy--indeed, on occasion has actively courted it. Slightly apologetically, sleeve note annotator Tad Hendrickson points out that the selections were those ...
Black Music Disaster
Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2012
Track listing: Black Music Disaster.
Elastic Aspects
Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2012
Track listing: Alternative Aspects; Aspects; Psychic Counterpart; Frame Focus; Flow
Chart; Mute Voice; Explosive Aspects; Raw Materials; Rainforest; Stage
10; Dimension; Elastic Aspects; Elastic Eye
Troy Collins' Best Releases of 2012
by Troy Collins
Considering the quantity of recordings released in a year's time, attempting to compile an end of the year list mentioning every first-rate session would be difficult at best. The ten titles included below are among the most exceptional new jazz albums I've heard in 2012. Jason Robinson Tiresian Symmetry Cuneiform Records
