Echoes Of Syros
Jazz
| Jan 2010
Reviews
Wedge
Reviewed 2010-02-10
Reviewed 2010-02-10
Ambient free improv, led by tuba (in heavy electronic processing for deep, echoey sounds) plus other instruments. Stuart Dempster adds trombone, didgeridoo, etc. Eric Glick Rieman is on prepared electric piano, which comes off like percussive wood or metal. Instrumental, FCC clean.
1- (34:08) Opens with low, cavernous tuba: An expansive, glacial wash of sound with occasional high groans like sea lions. BIG. After 7 minutes, the other instruments move in: more active, but still a big heavy atmosphere.
Any segment will make for a good excerpt, but you'll want to catch the first half for the noisier, darker background, or the segment around -15:00 onward for some percussion clatter (prepared electric piano!), or -10:00 onward for some slow, twangy horn soloing.
2- (6:26) Lots of clicky prepared piano. Trombone takes the lead. Still slow, atmospheric.
3- (5:58) Toy-shop clatter, busy but slow. Starkly percussive, not as droney/atmospheric as the other tracks.
4- (8:51) Wailing, conch-shell-like calls from the horns. Gets into some nice group work later, although it can be hard to take the high-pitched squeaky toy/tube that gets played near the end.
1- (34:08) Opens with low, cavernous tuba: An expansive, glacial wash of sound with occasional high groans like sea lions. BIG. After 7 minutes, the other instruments move in: more active, but still a big heavy atmosphere.
Any segment will make for a good excerpt, but you'll want to catch the first half for the noisier, darker background, or the segment around -15:00 onward for some percussion clatter (prepared electric piano!), or -10:00 onward for some slow, twangy horn soloing.
2- (6:26) Lots of clicky prepared piano. Trombone takes the lead. Still slow, atmospheric.
3- (5:58) Toy-shop clatter, busy but slow. Starkly percussive, not as droney/atmospheric as the other tracks.
4- (8:51) Wailing, conch-shell-like calls from the horns. Gets into some nice group work later, although it can be hard to take the high-pitched squeaky toy/tube that gets played near the end.
Recent airplay
Celestial
Vocal Concoctions — Apr 16, 2010
Echoes Of Syros
Memory Select — Apr 15, 2010
Echoes Of Syros
The Viking Lounge (sub for Alma Mahler) — Mar 18, 2010
Interzone
Memory Select — Mar 12, 2010
The Chimaera
Brownian Mojo — Mar 03, 2010
Celestial
Memory Select, early edition — Feb 26, 2010
Charting
2010-02-14 — 2010-04-18
Jazz
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Apr 18 | 2 |
| Mar 21 | 1 |
| Mar 14 | 1 |
| Mar 7 | 1 |
| Feb 28 | 1 |
| Feb 21 | 1 |
Track listing
| 1. | Echoes Of Syros | ||
| 2. | Celestial | ||
| 3. | Interzone | ||
| 4. | The Chimaera |