| Shipp, Matthew Trio / Elastic Aspects |
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| Album: | Elastic Aspects | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Shipp, Matthew Trio | Added: | Mar 2012 | |
| Label: | Thirsty Ear Recordings | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2012-03-10 | Pull Date: | 2012-05-12 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | May 13 | May 6 | Apr 29 | Apr 22 | Apr 15 | Apr 8 | Apr 1 | Mar 25 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | May 10, 2012: | In Your Ear | Thursdays Pt. 1 Explosive Aspects | 4. | Apr 17, 2012: | Rebop Raw Materials, Explosive Aspects, Mute Voice | |
| 2. | May 04, 2012: | No Cover, No Minimum Raw Materials | 5. | Apr 13, 2012: | No Cover, No Minimum Elastic Aspects | |
| 3. | Apr 28, 2012: | 20120428 Return Elastic Aspects | 6. | Apr 06, 2012: | No Cover, No Minimum Stage 10 |
| Album Review |
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| Fo Reviewed 2012-03-08 | ||
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MATTHEW SHIPP: Elastic Aspects Thirsty Ear, 2012 AVANT-GARDE – Another very strong acoustic trio outing from Shipp, who as always follows his own path. This suite is dark-hued and brooding, nodding to the jazz tradition even as it dives into seemingly bottomless complexity or sparkles with crystalline abstraction. Matthew Shipp : piano Michael Bisio : bass Whit Dickey : drums All impressive. Fo’s Picks: 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 1. 2:18 – very slow bowed bass & distant, atmospheric percussion 2. 0:27 – solo piano reflection 3. 4:46 – quirky swing falls in and out of dense tangles; piano in knots 4. 3:51 – solo piano, bright and abstract, fractured melodies run high, low 5. 1:29 – big ragged, rasping bass; drums barely suggest a groove 6. 3:12 – piano moves in complex zigzags, quietly free drum/bass backing 7. 3:18 – heavy, crushing piano; thick, scurrying bass; drums react to piano 8. 5:30 – bright & melodic, but in a distracted way; gets stuck in loops 9. 5:08 – solo bass, bowed and brooding, sawing and sighing 10. 3:11 – brisk bass stroll with ringing prepared piano, minimal drums 11. 3:23 – solo piano chases its tail, meanders, digs 12. 4:29 – thick, sluggish flow: cerebral piano runs free over calm backing 13. 7:36 – rises up into a chugging, crushing dynamo; falls back occasionally [ Fo ] - March 2012 | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Alternative Aspects | 7. | Explosive Aspects | |||
| 2. | Aspects | 8. | Raw Materials | |||
| 3. | Psychic Counterpart | 9. | Rainforest | |||
| 4. | Frame Focus | 10. | Stage 10 | |||
| 5. | Flow Chart | 11. | Dimension | |||
| 6. | Mute Voice | 12. | Elastic Aspects | |||
| 13. | Elastic Eye | |||||