| Alterations / Voila Enough |
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| Album: | Voila Enough | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Alterations | Added: | Jun 2003 | |
| Label: | Atavistic/Truckstop Audio | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2003-10-19 | Pull Date: | 2003-12-21 |
| Week Ending: | Nov 16 | Nov 2 | Oct 26 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 14, 2003: | Memory Select Berlin 4 | 4. | Oct 29, 2003: | Tofutti break! Bracknell 5 | |
| 2. | Nov 10, 2003: | Fly By Night Berlin 4 | 5. | Oct 23, 2003: | Umami of Sound Bracknell 5 | |
| 3. | Oct 30, 2003: | Brownian Epiphany Berlin 1 | ||||
| Album Review |
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| Gabe Reviewed 2003-10-07 | ||
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Approachable, even catchy, improvised music from some of the foremost English practitioners. These sessions from 1980 feature the quartet playing an impressive assortment of instruments to produce improv with humor and grace. The notes state that the band then was rebelling against the creeping Puritanism of the improv scene at the time, a Puritanism which disdained all regular beats, chord progressions, and even electronic effects. So the foursome here pushed in the opposite direction – trying to bring those elements into improv without turning into the dreaded “jazz-rock fusion”, the primary enemy of free improv at the time. Great stuff. 1. Guitar-n-drums pounding away with a tuneful bass solo suffixed 2. Tweaking and squeaking – guitar, piano, balloons 3. Hinting at a piano sonata 4. Toop blows a small melody on flute, Beresford tickles the ivories, then some bass belches lend a funny tone 5. Bass and drums do some heavy hitting before game calls and other funny noises intrude 6. Mostly piano, relatively “nice”, plus an obnoxiously noisy guitar stutter; then they somehow change places; excellent 7. Quick crunchy guitar interlude 8. Heavy-handed piano runs compete with honking sax 9. Ear-piercing whistles ease into more pleasant piano and bass textures 10. Admirably jazz-inflected tune 11. Guitar noise, mostly 12. Wicked tense guitar noise 13. Sort of bouncy sax bleats create rhythm, piano and, later, sax mellow things down 14. Rapidly brushed guitar, piano, and flute interweave 15. Aggressive guitar feedback laced with “faulty guitar pedal”, a record player playing some movie fantasia, and assorted horns | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Berlin 1 | 8. | Bracknell 3 | |||
| 2. | Berlin 2 | 9. | Bracknell 4 | |||
| 3. | Berlin 3 | 10. | Bracknell 5 | |||
| 4. | Berlin 4 | 11. | Tilburg 1 | |||
| 5. | Berlin 5 | 12. | Tilburg 2 | |||
| 6. | Bracknell 1 | 13. | Tilburg 3 | |||
| 7. | Bracknell 2 | 14. | Tilburg 4 | |||
| 15. | Lmc Segue | |||||