| Groundtruther + John Medeski / Altitude |
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| Album: | Altitude | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Groundtruther + John Medeski | Added: | Oct 2007 | |
| Label: | Thirsty Ear Communication | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2007-11-25 | Pull Date: | 2008-01-27 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Jan 27 | Jan 6 | Dec 30 | Dec 16 | Dec 9 | Dec 2 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 01, 2008: | Memory Select Empire State | 4. | Jan 02, 2008: | Eran Mukamel (sub) Pyramid Of Giza | |
| 2. | Jan 25, 2008: | Memory Select Bathymetric Expression | 5. | Dec 26, 2007: | Brownian Motion Manque Taipei 101 | |
| 3. | Jan 23, 2008: | Eran Mukamel (yelldown warhellride) Mariana Trench | 6. | Dec 12, 2007: | Eran Mukamel (poop) Empire State |
| Album Review |
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| Don Farrell Reviewed 2007-11-26 | ||
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Final recording of a 5 year trilogy ( Latitude, Longitude and now Altitude) with core duo of Hunter & Previte with a rotating third musician ( Medeski). 7 string e guitar, 7 string acoustic guitar, electronics, electronic drums, acoustic drums, hammond organ, Wurlitzer, electronic piano, Moog, clavinet. Mellotron, melodica, acoustic piano Disc 1 Above Sea level (ELECTRIC) all good 1: 4:10 industrial/foundry drone by e guitar and drums 2: 6:12 cool way out there e guitar feedback/fuzz 3: 5:23 great range of sounds, instrument noodling, more mellow 4: 10:27 tremelo guitar scat style guitar, rock guitar drum & organ 5: 6:53 electronic instrument noodling, rock guitar drum 6: 7:01 a bit more mellow mid tempo swirling atmospherics, instrument noodling 7: 15:43 pounding rhythm e guitar, Moog ??, atmospherics, drums, rock guitar, feedback powerful drumming, keyboard noodling Disc 2 Below Sealvel (ACOUSTIC) named for landforms and Geologic/Tectonic processes 1: 0:33 acoustic guitar, drum kit sparse noodling, mellow 2: 0:27 " " " " 3: 0:36 "these tracks can go right into #4 " " 4: 3:37 acoustic guitar, drum kit, piano noodling, faster 5: 3:21 sparse acoustic guitar, drum kit, piano noodling, 6: 2:49 sparse acoustic guitar, drum kit, piano noodling, 7: 2:17 " " " " 8: 3:51 " " " " 9: 2:02 " " " " 10: 1:16 " " " " ***11: 4:10 faster 12: 2:14 sparse acoustic guitar, drum kit, piano noodling 13: 3: 23 " " " " **14: 1:51 chaos ***15: 7:42 almost a classical style intro then controlled mild chaos 16: 1:54 sparse acoustic guitar, drum kit, piano noodling D Farrell 11/2007 | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Taipei 101 | 11. | Evaporites | |||
| 2. | Pyramid Of Giza | 12. | Forearc | |||
| 3. | Everest | 13. | Cold Seep | |||
| 4. | Seoul Tower | 14. | Downwelling | |||
| 5. | Kingda Ka | 15. | Decollement | |||
| 6. | Warsaw Radio Mast | 16. | Sea Floor Spreading Hypothesis | |||
| 7. | Empire State | 17. | Turbidite | |||
| 8. | Three Haikus | 18. | Bathymetric Expression | |||
| 9. | Submarine Canyon | 19. | Tectonic Revolution | |||
| 10. | Subduction Zone | 20. | Mariana Trench | |||
| 21. | Challenger Deep | |||||