Shipp, Matthew Trio / Elastic Aspects
Album: Elastic Aspects   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Shipp, Matthew Trio   Added:Mar 2012
Label:Thirsty Ear Recordings  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2012-03-10 Pull Date: 2012-05-12 Charts: Jazz
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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
Fo
Reviewed 2012-03-08
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
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