| Social/Science Set, the / Social/Science Set, the |
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| Album: | Social/Science Set, the | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Social/Science Set, the | Added: | Apr 2003 | |
| Label: | The Beak Doctor | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2003-04-28 | Pull Date: | 2003-06-30 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Jun 29 | Jun 22 | Jun 15 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 20, 2007: | Memory Select Lexeme | 3. | Jun 20, 2003: | Memory Select Lexeme | |
| 2. | Jun 27, 2003: | Memory Select Social Set 1 | 4. | Jun 13, 2003: | Memory Select Realgar |
| Album Review |
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| Craig Matsumoto Reviewed 2003-05-15 | ||
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Reissue of 1980 Bay Area sessions that included Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, ROVA, Henry Kaiser and others. It's mostly small-group pieces, with only #1 and 4 featuring most of the players. Abstract improvisation, in the vein of what Bailey and Parker generally do. Mostly fast-paced, wild stuff, like an avant-garde party. 1- Large ensemble piece. Starts with saxes (ROVA) fairly calmly, gets wild. Massive blur courtesy of Henry Kaiser at -14:00. 2*- Sedate abstraction; duet of sax and acoustic guitar (Bailey) 3- Sax (Evan Parker) and trumpet duet ... fast and skittish 4- Large-group improvising, loud and patiently paced. First 8 minutes loud. The rest is sparser but still fairly fierce. 5- Evan Parker solo of continuous cascading notes -- his usual thing. 6*- Calm start, then fierce. Features piano. 7*- Fast and bright: trumpet/sax/ac.guitar | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Social Set 1 | 4. | Social Set 2 | |||
| 2. | Realgar | 5. | Basalt | |||
| 3. | Xenon | 6. | Lexeme | |||
| 7. | Gabbro Scoops | |||||