Littlefield, Patti / Mark Weaver / Resonance
Album: Resonance   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Littlefield, Patti / Mark Weaver   Added:May 2009
Label:Plutonium Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2009-07-12 Pull Date: 2009-09-13 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Sep 13 Aug 30 Aug 23 Aug 16 Aug 9 Aug 2 Jul 19
Airplays: 2 1 1 1 1 1 1

Recent Airplay
1. Dec 02, 2009: Over the Full Moon Hump!
Footprints
4. Aug 28, 2009: Memory Select - Joe Maneri Edition
A Grain Of Mustard Seed
2. Sep 11, 2009: Memory Select - w/The Bad Plus
House Of The Rising Sun
5. Aug 22, 2009: Music Casserole
You're My Thrill
3. Sep 11, 2009: No Cover, No Minimum
House Of The Rising Sun
6. Aug 14, 2009: Memory Select: RIP Rashied Ali
Perfect Blues

Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2009-06-14
PATTI LITTLEFIELD & MARK WEAVER: Resonance
Plutonium, 2008

VOICE/TUBA DUETS – Here’s a unique sound out of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Singer Littlefield pulls and stretches her voice in odd directions: she plays it straight or a bit “out,” but makes either approach sound unsettling. Weaver’s tuba (or didgeridoo or trombone) adds rhythmic bass lines, color, and texture. Full band on 6 & 8. FCC clean.

* * * * | All interesting. Fo’s Picks: 1, 4, 6, 9

1. 3:19 – standard: vocal winds around tuba bassline; erotic poetry break
2. 5:01 – sardonic vocal delivery with walking tuba line, some basic scatting
3. 7:11 – slow, dissonant: tuba/trombone drone; poetic lyric, scat from space; second half scatting over an oblique walking rhythm
4. 4:36 – exotic: didgeridoo bounce, mysterious vocal expands/contracts
5. 4:02 – sinuous vocal, interesting lyric over busy tuba bassline
6. 6:54 – old tune, new sound: slow didgeridoo/guitar/drums, passionate vocal
7. 4:42 – standard: creeping/slinking vocal over spare tuba; wordless section
8. 6:30 – 1960s country classic: slow tuba/guitar/drums, storytelling vocal gets intense!
9. 2:47 – tuba & handclaps sound like a polka! overdubbed scatting vocals

[ Fo ] 06/14/09

Track Listing
1. You're My Thrill   5. Perfect Blues
2. Small Day Tomorrow   6. House Of The Rising Sun
3. A Grain Of Mustard Seed   7. Caravan
4. Footprints   8. Ode To Billie Joe
  9. Jitterbug Waltz