| Hwang, Jason Kao/Edge / Stories Before Within |
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| Album: | Stories Before Within | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Hwang, Jason Kao/Edge | Added: | Jan 2008 | |
| Label: | Innova Recordings | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2008-03-09 | Pull Date: | 2008-05-11 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | May 4 | Apr 6 | Mar 23 | Mar 16 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Oct 19, 2017: | No Cover, No Minimum Walking Pictures | 4. | May 02, 2008: | Music to Make Babies To, with Beatbeat Whisper From East Sixth Street | |
| 2. | Jun 18, 2016: | Music Casserole Cloud Call | 5. | Apr 04, 2008: | Memory Select Walking Pictures | |
| 3. | May 02, 2008: | Memory Select Cloud Call | 6. | Apr 04, 2008: | No Cover, No Minimum Cloud Call |
| Album Review |
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| Fo Reviewed 2008-03-09 | ||
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JASON KAO HWANG/EDGE: Stories Before Within Innova, 2007 Top-notch avant-garde jazz with lots of originality: violin/cornet/bass/ drums. Designed as narratives, these challenging pieces nicely balance long improvisational stretches with episodic themes and interludes that give them a logical, directional feel. Everybody sounds good, but bassist Ken Filiano is really prominent and does some fabulous stuff. All tracks excellent. Try any. 1. 10:33 – layered tick-tock themes & dramatic collisions separate solos; very cool improv dialogues between bass and other instruments. 2. 06:58 – chewy, swaggering bassline; off-kilter groove breaks down into chaos, slow sawing, busy clatter, then reconstitutes itself. 3. 10:22 – superb interaction: alternates a slow walk with a quiet, oozing creep; also noisy in places, and everybody gets a great solo. 4. 09:17 – Korean-style melody (also on Hwang’s “Local Lingo” CD) changes to a low tense groove, then some really spacious drum & bass solos 5. 14:05 – achingly slow melody adds one instrument at a time, gives way to angular jazz ballad; rhapsodic bowed bass solo, mysterious close [ Fo ] 9-Mar-08 | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Cloud Call | 3. | Walking Pictures | |||
| 2. | From East Sixth Street | 4. | Third Sight | |||
| 5. | Embers | |||||