| Cartwright/Oppenheim / La Faute De La Musique |
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| Album: | La Faute De La Musique | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Cartwright/Oppenheim | Added: | Apr 2004 | |
| Label: | Harriton Carved Wax | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2004-07-05 | Pull Date: | 2004-09-06 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Sep 5 | Aug 15 | Aug 1 | Jul 18 | Jul 11 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Sep 03, 2004: | Jamorama Select Apartment House | 4. | Jul 16, 2004: | Memory Select Apartment House | |
| 2. | Aug 13, 2004: | Memory Select Solo for Voice 12 | 5. | Jul 12, 2004: | Mixed-Up Class Solo for Voice 43 | |
| 3. | Jul 30, 2004: | Memory Select Solo for Voice 72 | 6. | Jul 09, 2004: | Memory Select Solo for Voice 43 |
| Album Review |
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| Craig Matsumoto Reviewed 2004-07-24 | ||
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Jazzy interpretations of some John Cage vocal works. Note that the "solo" tracks aren't performed solo; most are given a bass and sax add-on to create a jazz feel. The singing is all "vocalese" -- weird noises and cartoony swoops, wordless crooning, and nonsensical spoken snippets. Remember, this is John Cage we're talking about, and the pieces are written in experimental, free-form styles. The jazzy sound lightens it up a bit, but this is still fairly serious stuff, and you do need a tolerance for the avant-garde vocal stylings. Also check out this duo's CD in World -- it's completely different with, obviously, a "world" tone instead of jazz. 1- Bouncy mid/fast bass; nonsense half-spoken vocals with weird cartoony/alien sound. Rambles on quite a bit. 2- Mid/slow and dynamic, lots of swooping soprano crooning. Sounds French. 3*- Loungy and light: dinner jazz! Easy on the ears, with cohesive lyrics 4- Slow, studious. With aerial swirling sax in spots. 5- Scattery shards of sax & voice. Disjoint. 6- Slow. Some loungy piano/bass splashes and avant-garde sax 7- Voice and sax: Mid/fast but sparse, lots of pauses | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Aria | 4. | Solo for Voice 17 | |||
| 2. | Solo for Voice 43 | 5. | Solo for Voice 72 | |||
| 3. | Apartment House | 6. | Solo for Voice 12 | |||
| 7. | Solo for Voice 27 | |||||