Various Artists / Generate Records: 1999-2009
| Album: | Generate Records: 1999-2009 | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Oct 2009 | |
| Label: | Generate Records | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2009-11-08 | Pull Date: | 2010-01-10 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | Jan 10 | Dec 27 | Dec 20 | Dec 13 | Nov 22 | Nov 15 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 15, 2010: | Memory Select, new friday time
Paraphernalia |
4. | Dec 15, 2009: | Memory Select
Downtown Deal |
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| 2. | Jan 05, 2010: | Memory Select
Ny 2002 |
5. | Dec 08, 2009: | Memory Select
Paraphernalia |
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| 3. | Dec 22, 2009: | Memory Select
Ny 2008 |
6. | Nov 19, 2009: | orangeasm: tribute to goatse
Live At Cim - Ny 2007 |
Album Review
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
Track Listing