Abrams, Muhal Richard / Vision Towards Essence
| Album: | Vision Towards Essence | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Abrams, Muhal Richard | Added: | Sep 2007 | |
| Label: | Pi Recordings | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2007-09-02 | Pull Date: | 2007-11-04 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | Sep 30 | Sep 16 | Sep 9 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 11, 2016: | Everything A to Z week 38
Part 2 |
4. | Sep 14, 2007: | Memory Select
Part 2 [excerpt] |
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| 2. | Jul 25, 2009: | "In Your Ear ..." with Bug, an evening on saturday and birthday to greta
Part 3, Part 2, Part 1 |
5. | Sep 06, 2007: | Emphysema For Emphasis
Part 2, Part 1 |
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| 3. | Sep 28, 2007: | "In Your Ear ..." w/ d.Bug, for the one I want to be with someday, hopefully.
Part 1 |
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Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2007-09-01
Reviewed 2007-09-01
MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS: Vision Towards Essence
Pi, 2007
FREE IMPROV – Staggering solo piano tour de force by a free-jazz giant, recorded live in 1998. This is a single 60-minute improvisation broken into 3 tracks for easier handling. The music is darkly impressionistic with a lot of range, mostly accessible but flying farther out as it goes. Fans of avant-jazz and modern classical will enjoy this.
The 3 tracks work well, or you could switch to continuous play, fade in at any quiet spot and let it go for however long feels right.
1. 20:06 – starts calm, classical elements dance at the edges, growing more prominent; very dramatic and powerful middle, then takes on a spinning aspect, finally getting into unsettling, skewed refractions...
2. 18:23 – quietly tragic start, swells into huge storm clouds and gusts every which way, settles into bleakness then surges back, scrambling and tumbling; something like a cakewalk is blasted apart, and so on...
3. 20:16 – fast and splintered: disorienting sweeps, swoops and spins, then holds to a series of deliberate, steady pulses, churning like great engines; harsh, spiky section based on a low chord vs. a high note; becomes sparse with stabbing interjections, back to calm and out.
[ Fo ] 1-Sep-07
Pi, 2007
FREE IMPROV – Staggering solo piano tour de force by a free-jazz giant, recorded live in 1998. This is a single 60-minute improvisation broken into 3 tracks for easier handling. The music is darkly impressionistic with a lot of range, mostly accessible but flying farther out as it goes. Fans of avant-jazz and modern classical will enjoy this.
The 3 tracks work well, or you could switch to continuous play, fade in at any quiet spot and let it go for however long feels right.
1. 20:06 – starts calm, classical elements dance at the edges, growing more prominent; very dramatic and powerful middle, then takes on a spinning aspect, finally getting into unsettling, skewed refractions...
2. 18:23 – quietly tragic start, swells into huge storm clouds and gusts every which way, settles into bleakness then surges back, scrambling and tumbling; something like a cakewalk is blasted apart, and so on...
3. 20:16 – fast and splintered: disorienting sweeps, swoops and spins, then holds to a series of deliberate, steady pulses, churning like great engines; harsh, spiky section based on a low chord vs. a high note; becomes sparse with stabbing interjections, back to calm and out.
[ Fo ] 1-Sep-07
Track Listing
| 1. | Part 1 | 2. | Part 2 | |||
| 3. | Part 3 | |||||