| Gratkowski/Brown/Winant / Wake |
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| Album: | Wake | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Gratkowski/Brown/Winant | Added: | 08/2009 | |
| Label: | Red Toucan | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-08-23 | Pull Date: | 2009-10-25 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | 18 Oct | 11 Oct | 4 Oct | 27 Sep | 13 Sep | 6 Sep |
| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jun 20, 2015: | Music Casserole Ambitus | 4. | Oct 10, 2009: | Music Casserole Scrabble | |
| 2. | Oct 14, 2009: | public noize racket Slide | 5. | Sep 29, 2009: | Memory Select [new Tuesday time!] Parallax | |
| 3. | Oct 13, 2009: | Memory Select, guest Aram Shelton Ambitus | 6. | Sep 22, 2009: | Jena & Gomorrah Parallax |
| Album Review |
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| Wedge Reviewed 2009-08-13 | ||
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Abstract improvised music from piano, percussion, and clarinet, plus some electronic manipulations of the sound. Lots of tunable timpani -- the bass drum where you can bend the sound after hitting it. Instrumental, FCC clean. Frank Gratkowski -- sax/clarinet Chris Brown -- piano, electronics William Winant -- percussion, including that cool tunable timpani 1- A busy and upbeat, playful clatter. Second half quiet. Some high points: -21:00 ... nice segment with sublime piano, slappy metal percussion, and a high screech from clarinet. Then, tough-handed piano and vibraphone. -16:40 ... coolly chattering percussion/electronics sounds Midpoint ... very quiet. Still. -8:30 ... quiet segment opens into soft piano, metallic electronics flying by -4:40 ... Picks up volume and speed, into a loud timpani segment 2- Slow, an introspective crawl. Cool tuned-timpani bouncing sounds. Gets busier after -6:00, a tangle of sound like modern classical music. Last 3 minutes are quieter but fast, with liquidy insect-buzzing electronics. 3- Quite abstract and otherworldly. Buzzing and flapping sounds, especially from saxophone, and made even more abstract by the electronics playbacks. Really cool, but don't expect "jazz." 4- Serious tones. Blares like foghorns, which continue under hyper, nervous piano. Second half is more playful, with quizzical sax and melodic piano. High-toned frenzy near the end. 5- Sparse little sounds. After -9:30, it quickly gets loud and even explosive, with tense piano and scraping sax. After about -3:30, it simmers back down for a quiet ending, tranquil with a touch of menace. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Slide | 3. | Scrabble | |||
| 2. | Ambitus | 4. | Parallax | |||
| 5. | Archipelago | |||||