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Noah Preminger Group: Zigsaw: Music Of Steve Lampert
ByDescribing this sound: a sonic jigsaw stew comprised of Miles Davis' Bitches Brew (Columbia Records, 1970), mixed with a searing Tim Berne-ian saxophone intensity and some Ornette Coleman freedom, with a taste of 1960s psychedeliaBrian Wilson's "Good Vibrations" comes to mind in certain subsectionswith a seasoning of the clavinet-with-a-wah-wah-pedal jaw harp sound of The Band's "Up On Cripple Creek." Otherworldly atmospherics slotted in with wailing jazz.
Preminger is joined by alto saxophonist John O'Gallagher and trumpeter Jason Palmer who both blow hot. Preminger is cooler, his tenor sax sometimes sounding like a bass clarinet. Palmer sounds the most straight-ahead of the horn menthe sanest guy in the asylum, barely.
Even though the forty-nine minutes of music play continuously, the composition is divided into twelve sections, and each of these is subdivided into four subsections. Good luck identifying these segmentations; though the shifts in mood and texture are there, in a slippery waya cool bouncing groove gives way to a jagged, in-your-face sax segment at thirty one minutes, with a relentless sparkle from Kris Davis' piano glistening into the mix.
Then there are the oddities: the occasional twinkles like a summons from a cell phone; the sound of a woman's voice proclaiming something just under a volume that would allow the comprehension of her brief message. A good deal of the Zigsaw mixture of unusual sonics comes from the wizardry of Rob Schwimmer's work with the clavinet and the haken continuuman electronic music controller and synthesizer that is ..."limited only by your own musical imaginations." Schwimmer, apparently, suffers from very few imaginative limitations.
Zigsaw: Music Of Steve Lampert is a sprawling, unsettled weather system of sound. Compelling and futuristic.
Track Listing
Zigsaw.
Personnel
Noah Preminger
saxophone, tenorJason Palmer
trumpetJohn O'Gallagher
saxophone, altoKris Davis
pianoKim Cass
bass, acousticRudy Royston
drumsRob Schwimmer: haken continuum, clavinet.
Album information
Title: Zigsaw: Music of Steve Lampert | Year Released: 2019 | Record Label: Self Produced
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