Contemplazione

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Paolo Fresu Songlines / Night & Blue

22 oct 10

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In my small way, I want to highlight Louis Sclavis's new quintet. I saw them at Umbria Jazz this summer...5 geniuses, I've never been so moved at a concert! The reference album, superb, is "Lost On The Way" (ECM), and it presents a fresh musical version of the Odyssey. But live, they are something transcendental! Magnificent compositions, coupled with a unique rhythmic tension, a touch of Wagnerian harmonic ambiguity, complex and overwhelming improvisations, straddling melody and atonality. And above all, a group sound I've never heard before, except in individual parts. Sublime rhythm section... I'll stop here! :-D

Paolo Fresu Songlines / Night & Blue

22 oct 10

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I point out to primiballi and to all the "thirsty" for new (or almost) sounds the purchase of the book "Le età del jazz-i contemporanei" by Claudio Sessa. An acute and thorough examination of the paths taken by jazz in the last thirty years, with countless specific pieces used as examples and "analyzed" stylistically and musically. Endless inspiration for new listening!

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Requiem

2 oct 10

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I don't want to spoil the party, but I find everything laughable.

Freddie Hubbard Blue Spirit

2 oct 10

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This in particular I miss. I wouldn't describe his style as very delicate either, even though in the (rare) ballads he played, he knew how to be. Pamparius and Holdsworth spoke well!

Tim Buckley Starsailor

7 sep 10

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Cappio (or do you prefer Chicken?), you would REALLY go against the tide if you justified your dissent! Ole, even in Rock Bottom there’s vocal experimentation, certainly less complex than Starsailor...

Tim Buckley Starsailor

7 sep 10

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Robert Fripp, as we know, is one of the right ones.

Tim Buckley Starsailor

5 sep 10

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I didn't say they resemble each other in a strict sense... I thought I made myself clear in comment 6; I find that they are artistically similar, in terms of results, and in some aspects in terms of atmosphere. Opinions and subjective feelings, of course!

Tim Buckley Starsailor

5 sep 10

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In vocal experimentation, in "marine" or otherwise fluid atmospheres (astral, even alien if you will), in the expressive climax and the sensation of descending into the abyss (or a stellar journey) and returning, in the use of the trumpet and keyboards, in the limited use of the guitar, in the fact that they are two turning-point albums that break away from the past, in the fact that they are almost contemporaneous, in the fact that they are two unattainable masterpieces... I could go on for half an hour!

Tim Buckley Starsailor

5 sep 10

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A magnificent work of Art, the result of absolute research. In many ways, I find it comparable to Rock Bottom by Robert Wyatt, another supreme wonder of creative music.

Paul Chambers Bass on Top

28 aug 10

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A passionate review paying tribute to one of the greats of the double bass. The only problem: you are not very objective in your evaluation of the album, which, beyond the musicianship, is very conventional in terms of "materials and methods" and artistically "mediocre." 3.5 rounded up to 4 for me.