Generate Records: 1999-2009
Various Artists
Jazz
| Oct 2009
Reviews
Wedge
Reviewed 2009-11-19
Reviewed 2009-11-19
Abstract improvised music with traces of free jazz in some tracks. No electronics, but could appeal to fans of strange, noisy stuff.
It's a retrospective of drummer Jeff Arnal's various groups over the past 10 years, but there are common threads: nearly all-acoustic instrumentation, and some jazzy wisps from sax and piano (or, outright free-jazz aggression as on 1 and 4.)
1- Free-jazz attack. Lotta drums, wailing tenor sax.
2- Rattly drums and spare bass clarinet spatters
3- Sporadic, squawky. Echoey lo-fi.
4- Stern, slow piano. Gets loud and stormy
5- Rapid patter of small, curly sounds. Active yet low-key
6- Saxophone squawks. Pecking, abstract.
7- High, surreal squeak.
8- Mid/fast, lonely free jazz: Cooking sax/drums, crystalline piano. Great late-night bustling feel.
9- Dark and ritualistic sax/bass. Gets intense, a nice 15-minute journey
10- Small piano, metallic percussion
11- Chamber piano, slightly off. Really short.
12- Languid: loping, twangy bass, then calm jazz guitar.
13- Peppery piano and bass. A nicely dense, short track.
14- Otherworldly rattles and low, low trombone notes
15- Scattery skewed-jazz piano/sax
16- Gentle drone
It's a retrospective of drummer Jeff Arnal's various groups over the past 10 years, but there are common threads: nearly all-acoustic instrumentation, and some jazzy wisps from sax and piano (or, outright free-jazz aggression as on 1 and 4.)
1- Free-jazz attack. Lotta drums, wailing tenor sax.
2- Rattly drums and spare bass clarinet spatters
3- Sporadic, squawky. Echoey lo-fi.
4- Stern, slow piano. Gets loud and stormy
5- Rapid patter of small, curly sounds. Active yet low-key
6- Saxophone squawks. Pecking, abstract.
7- High, surreal squeak.
8- Mid/fast, lonely free jazz: Cooking sax/drums, crystalline piano. Great late-night bustling feel.
9- Dark and ritualistic sax/bass. Gets intense, a nice 15-minute journey
10- Small piano, metallic percussion
11- Chamber piano, slightly off. Really short.
12- Languid: loping, twangy bass, then calm jazz guitar.
13- Peppery piano and bass. A nicely dense, short track.
14- Otherworldly rattles and low, low trombone notes
15- Scattery skewed-jazz piano/sax
16- Gentle drone
Recent airplay
Paraphernalia
Memory Select, new friday time — Jan 15, 2010
Ny 2002
Memory Select — Jan 05, 2010
Ny 2008
Memory Select — Dec 22, 2009
Downtown Deal
Memory Select — Dec 15, 2009
Paraphernalia
Memory Select — Dec 08, 2009
Live At Cim - Ny 2007
orangeasm: tribute to goatse — Nov 19, 2009
Charting
2009-11-08 — 2010-01-10
Jazz
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Jan 10 | 1 |
| Dec 27 | 1 |
| Dec 20 | 1 |
| Dec 13 | 1 |
| Nov 22 | 1 |
| Nov 15 | 1 |
Track listing
| 1. | In Sink | ||
| 2. | Downtown Deal | ||
| 3. | Yucatan | ||
| 4. | I Dip My Hands Once Again Into The Ocean | ||
| 5. | Caterpillar Dream | ||
| 6. | Oaksmus Studio - Berlin 2001 | ||
| 7. | Lemniskate | ||
| 8. | Paraphernalia | ||
| 9. | Red | ||
| 10. | Pirouette On A Pin | ||
| 11. | In White Haze | ||
| 12. | Floater | ||
| 13. | Ny 2002 | ||
| 14. | Ny 2007 | ||
| 15. | Ny 2008 | ||
| 16. | Live At Cim - Ny 2007 |