Wilson, Tony 6tet / Pearls Before Swine
| Album: | Pearls Before Swine | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Wilson, Tony 6tet | Added: | Nov 2007 | |
| Label: | Drip Audio | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2007-12-24 | Pull Date: | 2008-02-25 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | Feb 24 | Feb 10 | Feb 3 | Jan 27 | Jan 20 | Jan 13 | Jan 6 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 26, 2010: | Memory Select, early edition
I Am The Walrus |
4. | Feb 08, 2008: | Memory Select
I Am The Walrus |
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| 2. | Aug 15, 2008: | Memory Select
I Am The Walrus |
5. | Feb 01, 2008: | Memory Select
For Fela Kuti #2 |
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| 3. | Feb 19, 2008: | The Wonder Beatles of Canada
I Am The Walrus |
6. | Jan 25, 2008: | Memory Select
Jim |
Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2007-12-14
Reviewed 2007-12-14
Adventurous and often rocking and/or silly. Jazz band led by Canadian guitarist Wilson and including violin and trumpet. Music is often bright, mixing uptempo out-jazz composing with rocking guitar and, sometimes, joking attitiude. Songs include accessible, toe-tapping themes but sometimes break for totally free improv: abstract, weird stuff. Instrumental except for 12. FCC clean.
Tony Wilson -- guitar, kalimba, loops
JP Carter -- trumpet, electronics
Masa Anzai -- sax, electronics
Russell Sholberg -- bass
Jesse Zubot -- violin
Skye Brooks -- drums
1- Rock out: Tense, mid/fast, head-bobbing
2- Pulsing guitar step, then a happy jazz blast and a spacious free improv. Nice flowing ending.
3- Fast and tense. Great free solos later on.
4- Airy abstraction, slow ... then a quiet mid/fast track
5- "I Am the Walrus:" Big and loud, with crazy free break and general rocking out.
6- Dancing violin squeaks, into a relaxed mid/fast piece, nice
7- Cool rolling feel, titled "For Fela Kuti." Bright. Free improv break gets more sparse and abrasive.
8- Country/Western! Skronk! Some metal? Fun! (Monk cover!)
9- Mid/fast, strong happy beat. HALTS for quiet improv, then rocks out
10- Gentle, pretty, with warped trumpet lines. Cool!
11- Klezmer traces in a fast head-bobbing beat. Middle is gloomier, with slow proto-metal guitar
12- Soft, sincerely pretty, w/vocals & country violin feel
Tony Wilson -- guitar, kalimba, loops
JP Carter -- trumpet, electronics
Masa Anzai -- sax, electronics
Russell Sholberg -- bass
Jesse Zubot -- violin
Skye Brooks -- drums
1- Rock out: Tense, mid/fast, head-bobbing
2- Pulsing guitar step, then a happy jazz blast and a spacious free improv. Nice flowing ending.
3- Fast and tense. Great free solos later on.
4- Airy abstraction, slow ... then a quiet mid/fast track
5- "I Am the Walrus:" Big and loud, with crazy free break and general rocking out.
6- Dancing violin squeaks, into a relaxed mid/fast piece, nice
7- Cool rolling feel, titled "For Fela Kuti." Bright. Free improv break gets more sparse and abrasive.
8- Country/Western! Skronk! Some metal? Fun! (Monk cover!)
9- Mid/fast, strong happy beat. HALTS for quiet improv, then rocks out
10- Gentle, pretty, with warped trumpet lines. Cool!
11- Klezmer traces in a fast head-bobbing beat. Middle is gloomier, with slow proto-metal guitar
12- Soft, sincerely pretty, w/vocals & country violin feel
Track Listing
| 1. | Ee-Gypt-Me | 7. | For Fela Kuti #2 | |||
| 2. | Squirk | 8. | Hornin' In | |||
| 3. | Boo-Dat | 9. | A Bit More | |||
| 4. | Innocent Objections | 10. | J.P.'s Tune | |||
| 5. | I Am The Walrus | 11. | Jim | |||
| 6. | Jesse's Tune | 12. | Junkyard Sea |