A Prospect Of Freedom

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Jazz | Sep 2006

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Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2007-03-15
Freely improvised jazz from Southern California. Two guitars, clarinet, trumpet, bass, drums. Includes the usual scattershot kind of improv but more often has some great pensive moments with floaty electric guitar (1,2,5,7).

Short pieces. The longest is 7:55, with most of the others tracking in at less than 5 minutes.

Justice Constantine (drums)
Orlando Greenhill (acoustic bass)
Lynn Johnston (clarinet, bass clarinet)
Raymond Raposa (el. guitar)
Chris Schlarb (el. guitar, electronics)
Kris Tiner (trumpet)

1- Bubbly. Fast yet calm.
2- Gentle, summery guitar. Slow, partly ominous
3- Quiet, pensive guitar. Sparse.
4- Grumbly roar, slow, industrial. Spiky fast improv ending.
5- Pretty and gentle, mid/fast.
6- A fast, twittering jungle; aggressive but turns really quiet
7- Slow. Twangy guitar drone under bleating horns, then quieter.
8- Scattery attack

Recent airplay

A Prospect Of Freedom
Alban Stands ThereAug 21, 2007
Durindana
Memory SelectMay 18, 2007
Durindana
Memory SelectMay 04, 2007
Gutei Holds Up A Finger
Memory SelectApr 27, 2007
A Prospect Of Freedom
Cognitive OverloadMar 31, 2007
Gutei Holds Up A Finger
Jena and GomorrahMar 27, 2007

Charting

2007-03-18 — 2007-05-20 Jazz
Week EndingAirplays
May 20 1
May 6 1
Apr 29 1
Apr 1 2
Mar 25 1

Track listing

1. A Prospect Of Freedom
2. Sonny Sharrock
3. When A Single Flower Blooms, It Is Spring Everywhere
4. Circus Hammer
5. Six Dreams/Dividend
6. In (Our) Own Backyard
7. Gutei Holds Up A Finger
8. Durindana