Skaller/Holt Duo / Music Of Mark Dresser
| Album: | Music Of Mark Dresser | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Skaller/Holt Duo | Added: | Feb 2012 | |
| Label: | PfMENTUM | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2012-02-05 | Pull Date: | 2012-04-08 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | Apr 8 | Mar 25 | Mar 18 | Feb 26 | Feb 19 | Feb 12 |
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| Airplays: | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 06, 2012: | No Cover, No Minimum
Flac |
4. | Mar 19, 2012: | Ghost Trees
Flac |
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| 2. | Apr 05, 2012: | maximum entropy ii
Flocus |
5. | Mar 15, 2012: | maximum entropy ii
Flocus |
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| 3. | Mar 23, 2012: | No Cover, No Minimum
Flac |
6. | Feb 21, 2012: | Rebop
Flocus |
Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2012-02-05
Reviewed 2012-02-05
SKALLER/HOLT DUO: Music of Mark Dresser
pfMENTUM, 2010
AVANT-GARDE – Five compositions by the highly-regarded avant bassist Mark Dresser, reconfigured for two keyboards (regular piano, prepared piano, toy piano, melodica, or celeste). As Dresser says in the liner notes, “what [they’ve] done is to deconstruct my deconstructions.”
All quite interesting. Fo’s Picks: 1, 2, 4
1. 5:12 – detuned fragments come in steady drips and briefly onrushing floods
2. 13:09 – striking neoclassical: variations on bold melodic lines, worked in thickets of overlapping tempos; alternates power and delicacy
3. 10:48 – very slow, very open celeste & piano with light, fragile harmony; second half treads oh-so carefully on cymbal percussion
4. 9:37 – pianos drift in, play a warped, winding blues in elastic tempo, go free
5. 12:33 – bluesy abstraction: piano/toy piano/melodica all in there together, alternating with free-flowing piano duet & heavy rhythmic sections
[ Fo ] - February 2012
pfMENTUM, 2010
AVANT-GARDE – Five compositions by the highly-regarded avant bassist Mark Dresser, reconfigured for two keyboards (regular piano, prepared piano, toy piano, melodica, or celeste). As Dresser says in the liner notes, “what [they’ve] done is to deconstruct my deconstructions.”
All quite interesting. Fo’s Picks: 1, 2, 4
1. 5:12 – detuned fragments come in steady drips and briefly onrushing floods
2. 13:09 – striking neoclassical: variations on bold melodic lines, worked in thickets of overlapping tempos; alternates power and delicacy
3. 10:48 – very slow, very open celeste & piano with light, fragile harmony; second half treads oh-so carefully on cymbal percussion
4. 9:37 – pianos drift in, play a warped, winding blues in elastic tempo, go free
5. 12:33 – bluesy abstraction: piano/toy piano/melodica all in there together, alternating with free-flowing piano duet & heavy rhythmic sections
[ Fo ] - February 2012
Track Listing
| 1. | Flac | 3. | Para Waltz | |||
| 2. | Flocus | 4. | Digestivo | |||
| 5. | Aperitivo | |||||