| Shipp, Matthew / 4 D |
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| Album: | 4 D | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Shipp, Matthew | Added: | 01/2010 | |
| Label: | Thirsty Ear Recordings | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2010-02-07 | Pull Date: | 2010-04-11 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | 28 Mar | 14 Mar | 14 Feb |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 26, 2010: | Memory Select, late edition The Crack In The Piano's Egg | 4. | Feb 12, 2010: | Memory Select - Tom Djll of Grosse Abfahrt Frere Jacques | |
| 2. | Mar 12, 2010: | Memory Select Greensleeves | 5. | Feb 09, 2010: | The Rock Lobster Greensleeves | |
| 3. | Mar 11, 2010: | The Machine Stops The Crack In The Piano's Egg | ||||
| Album Review |
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| Wedge Reviewed 2010-02-04 | ||
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Solo piano, jazzy but freeform. Cerebral, sometimes moody, sometimes big and sweeping, rarely swingy (although that's in there too). It's dense with chords and tightly clustered single notes. Knotty, often aggressive. Shipp has a reputation for cerebral music, and that's what you get here, but there's some wild fun too. (See 12 & 16.) Shipp favors mid-to-low notes (versus the high squiggly ones) for an aggressive and/or moody sound. Instrumental, FCC clean. 1- Lush and flowing. Strong mood but twilight air 2- Jaunty. Rich jazz chords, low-register hammering. 3- Tense suspense. High notes. 4- Opens with the feel of a jazz standard. Splits apart into happy burbles 5- Halting stacatto. Heavy. 6- Grand air. Slow and sweeping, big big chords. 7- Thick jumble. Dense. 8- A touch of bluesy swing, then heavyhanded thumping. 9- Heavy, instistant mutation of a standard 10- Flowery and big standard, also raucous. 11- Tiny, agile curls, builds to big, stomping jazz 12- "Frere Jacques," the pissed-off ADD version 13- Lush and lovely and ... hey, kinda normal 14- Grand and stately gospel, old timey vinyl crackle added. 15- Coolly mysterious, dynamic, mid/fast. 16- "Greensleeves" walks over and beats the crap out of you. | ||
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