Broomriding

Von Schlippenbach, Alexander
Psi Records
Jazz | Jan 2004

Reviews

Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2004-03-13
Free jazz session from one of the '60s European veterans, featuring piano and violin. Many tracks are composed, but they all end up in that untethered, abstract kind of space. A busy sound overall, but with lots of restraint -- more like an avant-chamber-music session than a free blowout. Well, except the first track, maybe.

1- Vicious, with scrabbly piano. Starts slow.
2- Midtempo drunken march, whimsical.
3- Strong session; starts and ends with delicate piano
4- Mid/slow, low-key
5- Nice shuffling theme, close to regular jazz!
6- Busy; lots of small sounds
7- Gets faster/louder near the end
8- Calm, flowing
9- Slow. Nice bowed-bass groove in the middle
10- Mad bass screeching and wordless vocal bablle (quiet start)
11- Mid/slow, serious chamber/classical feel.

Recent airplay

Straight Up and Down
Umami Jazz ProgramApr 20, 2004
Broomriding 2
Memory SelectApr 16, 2004
Straight Up and Down
Memory SelectMar 12, 2004

Charting

2004-03-08 — 2004-05-10 Jazz
Week EndingAirplays
Apr 25 1
Apr 18 1
Mar 14 1

Track listing

1. Broomriding 1
2. Straight Up and Down
3. Broomriding 2
4. Broomriding 3
5. Poetica
6. Broomriding 4
7. Broomriding 5
8. Attya
9. Broomriding 6
10. Broomriding 7
11. Something Sweet, ...