Artist: No Spaghetti Edition
Album: Listen... And Tell Me What It Was
Genre: Avant-garde, Experimental, Free improvisation
Labe: MUSEA Records
Recording Date: 2009
Format: CD
Quality: FLAC
Size: 346 MB
The title of this CD presents a sometimes impossible request, even for the seasoned listener of avant-garde free improvisation. Debate continues to rage amongst participants and fans of this genre over whether it is better to listen to the music on recordings and remain ignorant about who is doing what, or whether the live experience with its accompanying visual revelations is the way to go. In the case of a large-size improvising group, working mostly with their sympathetic ears and not much in the way of arrangements or compositions, it is a major mess for the mind either way. This ensemble retains the same name for its different projects, but switches membership constantly. In this case, we have mostly Norwegian musicians with a few out-of-country guests, including the wild and inspired keyboardist and electronics player Pat Thomas and the fine German trumpeter Axel Dorner. This is not a performance about stars, however. Everyone involved is throwing in ideas, and the result is quickly shifting textures and abrupt reversals of musical philosophy. Bizarre electronic sounds, gulping and beeping saxophones, and the frantic rustling of drums that sounds like someone rummaging around for a tennis racket in a closet are all part of the fun here. No single player gobbles up much space for very long. The session is well-recorded, the right and left placement of double basses a nice touch. This CD certainly should be added to the list of more successful ventures into large group improvising. Arranging the material with a compact disc release in mind surely helped with the process, as any music that wandered off course could be edited. Although there are eight sperate tracks, the music has a sense of flow as if the performances were all part of a single long work. Coming up with the titles for the tracks in this kind of music often lacks even the meaningfulness one might associate with naming the neighborhood clubhouse, but the short "Spaghetti Fingers" certainly does much to describe typical free improv instrumental technique. AMG
Accordion – Frode Haltli
Double Bass [Left] – Ingebrigt Haker Flaten
Double Bass [Right], Producer – Tonny Kluften
Drums [Left], Percussion [Left], Producer – Ingar Zach
Drums [Right], Percussion [Right] – Paal Nilssen-Love
Guitar [Left] – Oyvind Torvund
Guitar [Right], Producer – Ivar Grydeland
Piano, Electronics – Pat Thomas
Saxophone [Right] – Hakon Kornstad, Rolf Erik Nystrøm
Trumpet, Electronics – Axel Dorner
Voice, Electronics – Maja S. K. Ratkje
1 Mir 1.4
2 Drop the Boy
3 Moscowskaja
4 If Mountains Could Sing
5 The Night, the Death and the Universe
6 A Country Practice
7 Spaghetti Fingers
8 Mr. Thompson
Recorded in Rainbow Studio, Oslo, March 26th and 27th 2001. Mixed and mastered in May and June 2001.
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