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Wadada Leo Smith/ Hardedge: The Nile
ByIf you put Smith into a studio with just his horn and a typist with a manual typewriter, good and original music would result. With Hardedge, Smith's hornsometimes muted, sometimes open, sometimes pure-toned, sometimes fluttering and spitting and growlingsings inside of Hardedge's cricket chirps, his electric raindrops, the soft splattering on a painter's plastic drop cloth, the flutter of a robotic bird's metallic wings, an electric wire short-circuiting behind the drywall, near subliminal neon drones, a child hammering the inside of an upturned oil drum with a hammer.
On paper it sounds like a cacophonous experience. It's not. The two artists lay out the sounds at a measured and deliberate pace, spare and beautiful, tranquil, eerie. The music's relationship to the River Nile is uncertain, but it hardly matters, and it's surely there Wafada Leo Smith opperates on a differnt level than most of us. This is Wadada Leo Smith and his music-mate Hardedge creating a unique sonic experience.
Now where's that guy with the typewriter?
Track Listing
The Nile; Signs and Symbols of Humanity; Civilization of Barbarism; Harp.
Personnel
Wadada Leo Smith
trumpetWadada Leo Smith: trumpet; Hardedge: Sound Design
Album information
Title: The Nile | Year Released: 2015 | Record Label: Hardedge
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