Empty Cage Quartet - Stratostrophic

Empty Cage Quartet - Stratostrophic
Жанр: Free Improvisation, Avant Garde
Страна-производитель диска: Portugal
Год издания диска: 2008
Издатель (лейбл): Clean Feed Records
Номер по каталогу: cf 103
Страна: Portugal
Аудио кодек: (MP3 + FLAC) (*.flac)
Тип рипа: tracks+.cue
Битрейт аудио: (lossy + lossless)
Продолжительность: 1:09:41
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Треклист:
1 Again a Gun Again a Gun Again a Gun
2 Feerdom Is on the March
3 Old Ladies
4 The Power of the Great
5 We Are All Tomorrow's Food
6 Steps of the Ordinarily Unordinary
7 Aurobindo
8 Through the Doorways of Escape Come the Footsteps of Capture
9 Beedie and Bob
10 The Illusion of Transparency
11 Don't Hesitate To Change Your Mind

Лог создания рипа

Содержание индексной карты (.CUE)

Доп. информация:
Recorded at Luna Records in Los Angeles, CA, August 13-14, 2006

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Stratostrophic, the sixth release by the Empty Cage Quartet (ECQ), finds the avant West Coasters full of ideas and limited by nothing. Their omnivorous approach gladly frustrates label taggers while rewarding informed listeners with advanced compositional and improvisational delights. Their continuing association pays off in an acquired looseness that revels in taking chances without losing the links that keep these sonic aerialists flying together. Inside/outside, silly/serious, ECQ's creative central heat liquefies such abstractions into a bold shower of musical sparks.
The set begins with the three-footed Again A Gun Again A Gun Again A Gun. Drummer Paul Kikuchi and bassist Ivan Johnson create a stumbling rhythm for fiery Kris Tiner's raw trumpet to blaze across. Johnson gets solo time, then saxophonist Jason Mears plays call and response with Tiner, creating structure while Johnson and Kikuchi explore. Old Ladies features a cubist head swinging off kilter and Tiner solos with answers and wails coming from Mears, both always finding their ways back to the unison lines. The minimalist sound picture Power of the Great brings out Mears' clarinet, Tiner's mute and Johnson's bow. Kikuchi busily kicks off We Are All Tomorrow's Food and keeps it percolating under the others' laconic take on the theme. Mears catches up on clarinet, blasts past and then reins it in to repeat the theme. Tiner and Mears announce Steps of the Ordinarily Unordinary with a twisted toy army fanfare, sort of like Albert Ayler on Christmas morning, picked up by the rhythm section and marched around the tree. The haunting Aurobindo wafts like incense, Tiner's flugelhorn enriching the sound. Through the Doorways of Escape Come the Footsteps of Capture slowly evolves into a formidable midtempo groove that Tiner splatters with trumpetese. Johnson and Kikuchi shift gears for Mears to come aboard rolling octaves and squawks around in his mouth, powerfully sprinting ahead.

Состав

Jason Mears: alto saxophone, clarinet
Kris Tiner: trumpet, flugelhorn
Paul Kikuchi: drums, percussion, electronics
Ivan Johnson: double bass