Fell, Simon H./Sfq / Four Compositions
| Album: | Four Compositions | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Fell, Simon H./Sfq | Added: | Dec 2004 | |
| Label: | Red Toucan | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2005-02-06 | Pull Date: | 2005-04-10 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | Apr 10 | Mar 6 | Feb 13 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 08, 2005: | Memory Select
GM2 Blues |
3. | Feb 11, 2005: | Memory Select
Gruppen Modulor 2 |
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| 2. | Mar 01, 2005: | Umami Jazz Program
GM3 Rhythm |
4. | Feb 08, 2005: | Umami Jazz Program
GM2 Blues |
Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2005-02-12
Reviewed 2005-02-12
Some crazy free jazz with a quintet, followed by more serious free improv with a quartet -- all based on compositions by bassist Fell. Don't let the "Composition#" titles scare you. Yes, these have an academic sound -- even in the fast, rolling free-jazz phases -- but in a less severe way than, say, Anthony Braxton's recent work.
DISK ONE
1- Sparse, quiet, with big piano crashes at first
2*- Jazzy avant-bebop amid sparse avant doodlings. Ends quiet and spare
3*- Fast rollicking jazz. Breaks down for a quiet pause at about -14:00 but revs up again. Last 5 minutes are quiet.
DISK TWO -- Focuses more on abstract free improv. (It's one composition in 7 movements.)
1- Gentle abstract burble, screechy in places
2- Fast clutter, into lonely ghostly noises
3*- Fast, with some athletic bass & quirky composed lines
4- Quiet
5- Thundering drums; quiet sqeaks and squawks
6*- Perky, quirky chamber-jazz lines, fairly fast. Slow ending
7- Mostly slow and sparse. Very quiet start.
DISK ONE
1- Sparse, quiet, with big piano crashes at first
2*- Jazzy avant-bebop amid sparse avant doodlings. Ends quiet and spare
3*- Fast rollicking jazz. Breaks down for a quiet pause at about -14:00 but revs up again. Last 5 minutes are quiet.
DISK TWO -- Focuses more on abstract free improv. (It's one composition in 7 movements.)
1- Gentle abstract burble, screechy in places
2- Fast clutter, into lonely ghostly noises
3*- Fast, with some athletic bass & quirky composed lines
4- Quiet
5- Thundering drums; quiet sqeaks and squawks
6*- Perky, quirky chamber-jazz lines, fairly fast. Slow ending
7- Mostly slow and sparse. Very quiet start.
Track Listing
| 1. | Koln Klang | 6. | GM2 Blues | |||
| 2. | Trapped By Formalism 2 | 7. | Quartet | |||
| 3. | Gruppen Modulor 2 | 8. | Liverpool 2 | |||
| 4. | Liverpool 1A | 9. | GM3 Rhythm | |||
| 5. | Liverpool 1B | 10. | Kandinsky Lines |