| Lehman, Steve Octet / Travail, Transformation, And Flow |
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| Album: | Travail, Transformation, And Flow | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Lehman, Steve Octet | Added: | Jun 2009 | |
| Label: | Pi Recordings | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-06-14 | Pull Date: | 2009-08-16 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Aug 16 | Aug 9 | Aug 2 | Jul 19 | Jul 12 | Jul 5 | Jun 28 | Jun 21 |
| Airplays: | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 02, 2012: | No Cover, No Minimum Echoes | 4. | Oct 16, 2009: | No Cover, No Minimum As Things Change (I Remain The Same) | |
| 2. | Dec 10, 2011: | Music Casserole Alloy | 5. | Aug 14, 2009: | "In Your Ear ..." with Bug, passing glances and other memories Alloy | |
| 3. | Feb 25, 2011: | No Cover, No Minimum Echoes | 6. | Aug 14, 2009: | No Cover, No Minimum No Neighborhood Rough Enough |
| Album Review |
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| Fo Reviewed 2009-06-13 | ||
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STEVE LEHMAN OCTET: Travail, Transformation, and Flow Pi, 2009 AVANT-GARDE – Wow! In this project, Lehman, who already has a reputation as one of the heaviest guys on the scene, merges jazz with concepts of spectral music – a methodology in which the composer employs computers to analyze, discover and exploit previously hidden relationships between sounds. This opens up exciting new possibilities for advanced harmony – at times the spectral arrangements can make multiple instruments sound like one (from another world), or slur their characteristics of attack and decay into bizarre backwards-sounding effects. You have to remind yourself it's being played live. Although spectral music has been around a while, it is largely unexplored in jazz, where the rhythmic and improvisational skill of the musicians gives it a particular vibrancy. Lehman really makes it work, setting slicing horn solos against oddly patterned backgrounds, while Tyshawn Sorey’s fabulous drumming – which frequently sounds machine-produced, it’s so fast and precise – provides a continual kick in the pants. This CD will be on a lot of people’s Top 10 for 2009. Steve Lehman - alto sax Mark Shim - tenor sax Jonathan Finlayson - trumpet Tim Albright - trombone Chris Dingman - vibraphone Jose Davila - tuba Drew Gress - bass Tyshawn Sorey - drums * * * * * | Fo’s Picks: ALL 1. 4:26 – bright shimmering chords burst over skittery rhythm, alto sax hops 2. 4:48 – horns snake through strange vibraphone pattern, gets fast & knotty 3. 3:47 – splinters combine into fractured groove, “inverted” horn sounds 4. 1:45 – cinematic: fast bass & drums, slurring horns with vibe punctuation 5. 10:09 – Steve Coleman feel: starts with casual air & trombone solo, two-way horn chatter brings it up; saxes and drums maintain a low boil 6. 5:36 – hallucinatory: atmospheric drums, warping horn tones, quiet spaces 7. 6:14 – similar to #1 but with lots more emphasis on the drums and sax 8. 3:17 – dense, crumbling interpretation of a GZA hip-hop track! Very cool. [ Fo ] 06/13/09 | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Echoes | 5. | Alloy | |||
| 2. | Rudreshm | 6. | Waves | |||
| 3. | As Things Change (I Remain The Same) | 7. | No Neighborhood Rough Enough | |||
| 4. | Dub | 8. | Living In The World Today (Gza Transcription) |