| Brown, Chris & Fred Frith / Cutter Heads |
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| Album: | Cutter Heads | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Brown, Chris & Fred Frith | Added: | Jul 2007 | |
| Label: | Intakt Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2007-07-15 | Pull Date: | 2007-09-16 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Sep 9 | Sep 2 | Aug 26 | Aug 19 | Aug 12 | Aug 5 | Jul 29 | Jul 22 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Sep 08, 2007: | Bloodstains Across Atherton - Oh, you know Thick Air | 4. | Aug 24, 2007: | Memory Select: sfSound and Webern Nothing But Make Me | |
| 2. | Aug 31, 2007: | Baptism of Solitude (extended remix) Nothing But Make Me | 5. | Aug 18, 2007: | Cognitive Overload Thick Air | |
| 3. | Aug 25, 2007: | Cognitive Overload Nothing But Make Me | 6. | Aug 11, 2007: | Cognitive Overload Swing Like Riddle |
| Album Review |
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| mufaor Reviewed 2007-07-16 | ||
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Rollicking to droney free jazz/electronics, prepared piano and guitar. Complex percussion/rhythms, zone-out drone parts, interesting tunings/harmonies. Tracks 1-3 dense noodly crazy. Tracks 4-6 contemplative droney stretched out. Piano comparisons Nancarrow, Cecil Taylor, Sergei Kuryokin and Cornelius Cardew (and probably more jazz ones I don’t know about). Fred Frith does a ton of different experimental guitar stuff. Very good. 1. Starts thunder sounds, slow tense gradually denser, rumbly, jazzy, tapers off mellower last 3 minutes. **2. Skittery scrapey snappy crunchy slidey. Spatial, beautiful harmonies, fun rhythms. Zany. Would be great next to Nancarrow. *3. Starts funky. Good god. Again please. Dense parts with icky tunings, Tibetan bell-like parts. Diverse and epic. 4. Contemplative and responsive. Crunchy/glass/keys, scraping, prep piano, jazz/impressionist tinkles. Nice sliding and held tones. I could live in those tones. 5. Strumming guitar and thick cascading piano chords. Rumble drone strum. “Normal” chords first 4 minutes. About 7:00 left gets more out but – jammy! – percussive, repetitive rhythms, weird sounds. Diverse style-wise – rock-drone-ambient-space-electronic-classical-jazz. 6. Like Debussy’s Reflections on the Water for weirdo prepared guitar and piano, minus the climax. Pretty, makes me smile. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Telltale Streamers Of Dust | 4. | Thick Air | |||
| 2. | Nothing But Make Me | 5. | Sings The Foundation | |||
| 3. | Swing Like Riddle | 6. | The Way You Do The Things |