Antipop Vs Matthew Shipp
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Reviewed 2003-03-03
Reviewed 2003-03-03
Antipop Consortium vs. Matthew Shipp
Experimental Hip-Hop verses Free Jazz Piano Improv. This is a hard album to describe in a general sense, some of the tracks are jazzy bits with some hip-hop flavored beats, others are more like straight Antipop stuff with some live instrument comping. I picked up this to review because I really liked the first track, I just wish the rest of the album was as interesting. Don't get me wrong, this album is pretty good, but it's not all that revolutionary and I didn't feel like the two groups working together made something that was more then the sum of its parts. Try out tracks 1, 5, and 8 and then move out from there if you like what you hear.
1) **Instrumental with dark, wide piano chords
2) Straight ahead jazzy with vocal interludes
3) Slow rapping over a more sparse instrumentation
4) After a light, pretty straight, vocals, piano quoting XXX from Miles "All Blues" from Kind of Blue
5) *Looping piano repetitions with minimal accompanyment that very gradually increases intensity
6) Bowed bass intro, then rapping over a kind of minimalist drum-n-bass
8) *Slow rapping with sparse afro-beat percussion and occasional exclaimations from Shipp's piano
10) Up-tempo free jazz piano workout
Tom Purcell, March 2003
Experimental Hip-Hop verses Free Jazz Piano Improv. This is a hard album to describe in a general sense, some of the tracks are jazzy bits with some hip-hop flavored beats, others are more like straight Antipop stuff with some live instrument comping. I picked up this to review because I really liked the first track, I just wish the rest of the album was as interesting. Don't get me wrong, this album is pretty good, but it's not all that revolutionary and I didn't feel like the two groups working together made something that was more then the sum of its parts. Try out tracks 1, 5, and 8 and then move out from there if you like what you hear.
1) **Instrumental with dark, wide piano chords
2) Straight ahead jazzy with vocal interludes
3) Slow rapping over a more sparse instrumentation
4) After a light, pretty straight, vocals, piano quoting XXX from Miles "All Blues" from Kind of Blue
5) *Looping piano repetitions with minimal accompanyment that very gradually increases intensity
6) Bowed bass intro, then rapping over a kind of minimalist drum-n-bass
8) *Slow rapping with sparse afro-beat percussion and occasional exclaimations from Shipp's piano
10) Up-tempo free jazz piano workout
Tom Purcell, March 2003
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Charting
2003-03-17 — 2003-05-19
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| May 4 | 2 |
| Apr 27 | 1 |
| Apr 20 | 1 |
| Apr 13 | 4 |
| Apr 6 | 1 |
| Mar 30 | 2 |
| Mar 23 | 2 |
Track listing
| 1. | Places I've Never Been | ||
| 2. | Staph | ||
| 3. | Slow Horn | ||
| 4. | A Knot in Your Bop | ||
| 5. | Svp | ||
| 6. | Coda | ||
| 7. | Stream Light | ||
| 8. | Monstro City | ||
| 9. | Real Is Surreal | ||
| 10. | Free Hop |