Unfold Ordinary Mind
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Fo
Reviewed 2013-02-23
Reviewed 2013-02-23
BEN GOLDBERG: Unfold Ordinary Mind
BAG Production, 2012
AVANT-GARDE – Interesting quintet session led by local clarinetist Goldberg with two saxes (Ellery Eskelin & Rob Sudduth), Nels Cline on guitar and Ches Smith on drums. That’s a lot of shared experience and a lot of improvisational power. These slumping pieces move from relaxed reed harmonies through disintegrating riffs, guitar shredding, and rockish marching beats, mostly holding onto identifiable melodies but sometimes just by the edge of their fingernails.
Fo’s Picks: 1, 2, 6, 7
1. 9:09 – horn trio goes from moodiness to little marches, then guitar goes wild
2. 11:22 – slouching start, slow shredding, then settles into a relaxed groove… that eventually falls apart and it ends in loose, twisting threads
3. 5:48 – slips into a simple slow-rock rhythm, guitar gets pretty trippy
4. 2:16 – horn trio riffs on a melodic fragment, then flutter around guitar
5. 3:36 – messy drums, abstract guitar pull it inside out; bass clarinet runs low
6. 9:21 – dignified horns wander into funky guitar jam, last 2:00 splinters apart
7. 5:45 – this one stays fairly calm, reeds and guitar in a sort of counterpoint
[ Fo ] - 23 February 2013
BAG Production, 2012
AVANT-GARDE – Interesting quintet session led by local clarinetist Goldberg with two saxes (Ellery Eskelin & Rob Sudduth), Nels Cline on guitar and Ches Smith on drums. That’s a lot of shared experience and a lot of improvisational power. These slumping pieces move from relaxed reed harmonies through disintegrating riffs, guitar shredding, and rockish marching beats, mostly holding onto identifiable melodies but sometimes just by the edge of their fingernails.
Fo’s Picks: 1, 2, 6, 7
1. 9:09 – horn trio goes from moodiness to little marches, then guitar goes wild
2. 11:22 – slouching start, slow shredding, then settles into a relaxed groove… that eventually falls apart and it ends in loose, twisting threads
3. 5:48 – slips into a simple slow-rock rhythm, guitar gets pretty trippy
4. 2:16 – horn trio riffs on a melodic fragment, then flutter around guitar
5. 3:36 – messy drums, abstract guitar pull it inside out; bass clarinet runs low
6. 9:21 – dignified horns wander into funky guitar jam, last 2:00 splinters apart
7. 5:45 – this one stays fairly calm, reeds and guitar in a sort of counterpoint
[ Fo ] - 23 February 2013
Recent airplay
Breathing Room
Fight or Flight — Oct 11, 2013
Parallelogram
minimum entropy — Apr 24, 2013
Stemwinder
No Cover, No Minimum: Track 6 — Apr 19, 2013
Elliptical
No Cover, No Minimum — Apr 11, 2013
Parallelogram
minimum entropy iii — Mar 21, 2013
Parallelogram
Greenhouse of Skin — Mar 05, 2013
Charting
2013-02-26 — 2013-04-28
Jazz
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Apr 28 | 1 |
| Apr 21 | 1 |
| Apr 14 | 1 |
| Mar 24 | 1 |
| Mar 10 | 1 |
| Mar 3 | 1 |
Track listing
| 1. | Elliptical | ||
| 2. | Parallelogram | ||
| 3. | Xcpf | ||
| 4. | Lone | ||
| 5. | I Miss The S.L.A. | ||
| 6. | Stemwinder | ||
| 7. | Breathing Room |