| Tsahar, Assif/New York Undergr / Fragments |
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| Album: | Fragments | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Tsahar, Assif/New York Undergr | Added: | Mar 2005 | |
| Label: | Hopscotch Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2005-06-05 | Pull Date: | 2005-08-07 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Aug 7 | Jul 24 | Jul 10 | Jun 26 | Jun 19 | Jun 12 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 24, 2009: | Memory Select Tenth | 4. | Aug 05, 2005: | The Dog and Pony show Seventh | |
| 2. | Aug 11, 2009: | Jena & Gomorrah: big bands Fifth | 5. | Aug 04, 2005: | Multiple Personality Disorder Twelfth | |
| 3. | Jun 26, 2007: | Alban Stands There Fourteenth | 6. | Jul 22, 2005: | Memory Select Seventh |
| Album Review |
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| Craig Matsumoto Reviewed 2005-06-17 | ||
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Short compositions for orchestra. The kind of improv setting that often resembles modern chamber music, particularly due to the empahsis on strings. Traditional Jewish scales pop up (5,7) but the more dominating sound are microtones -- that is, violins/cellos played in screechy, other-worldly scales. In the past, Tsahar has used the orchestra in a more free-form setting. These pieces show off the composed elements much more (5) although they do let the musicisians spin into untethered improv (6,11). 1- Slow, with guitar 2- Quiet scrabbling with trumpet 3- Sad violin wail, slow, dark 4- Very quiet squeaking 5- Slow, mysterious. Old-world folk vibe 6- Jumpy improv 7- Slow, Balkan/Klezmer violin 9- Slow, drawn-out lines. Dramatic, with squeaky soloists 10- Brash trumpet and jazzy bassline 11- Fast chaos 12- A gradual rumble 13- Sour-toned viola over pizzacatto backing 14- Dark and creeping with fast cello, into a squall 15- Small, w/overlapping horn and flute blips 16- Improv clatter, fast w/quiet middle. Ends bright and jazzy with spirited clarinet | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | First | 9. | Ninth | |||
| 2. | Second | 10. | Tenth | |||
| 3. | Third | 11. | Eleventh | |||
| 4. | Fourth | 12. | Twelfth | |||
| 5. | Fifth | 13. | Thirteenth | |||
| 6. | Sixth | 14. | Fourteenth | |||
| 7. | Seventh | 15. | Fifteenth | |||
| 8. | Eighth | 16. | Sixteenth |