Music Of Mark Dresser
Reviews
Fo
Reviewed 2012-02-05
Reviewed 2012-02-05
SKALLER/HOLT DUO: Music of Mark Dresser
pfMENTUM, 2010
AVANT-GARDE – Five compositions by the highly-regarded avant bassist Mark Dresser, reconfigured for two keyboards (regular piano, prepared piano, toy piano, melodica, or celeste). As Dresser says in the liner notes, “what [they’ve] done is to deconstruct my deconstructions.”
All quite interesting. Fo’s Picks: 1, 2, 4
1. 5:12 – detuned fragments come in steady drips and briefly onrushing floods
2. 13:09 – striking neoclassical: variations on bold melodic lines, worked in thickets of overlapping tempos; alternates power and delicacy
3. 10:48 – very slow, very open celeste & piano with light, fragile harmony; second half treads oh-so carefully on cymbal percussion
4. 9:37 – pianos drift in, play a warped, winding blues in elastic tempo, go free
5. 12:33 – bluesy abstraction: piano/toy piano/melodica all in there together, alternating with free-flowing piano duet & heavy rhythmic sections
[ Fo ] - February 2012
pfMENTUM, 2010
AVANT-GARDE – Five compositions by the highly-regarded avant bassist Mark Dresser, reconfigured for two keyboards (regular piano, prepared piano, toy piano, melodica, or celeste). As Dresser says in the liner notes, “what [they’ve] done is to deconstruct my deconstructions.”
All quite interesting. Fo’s Picks: 1, 2, 4
1. 5:12 – detuned fragments come in steady drips and briefly onrushing floods
2. 13:09 – striking neoclassical: variations on bold melodic lines, worked in thickets of overlapping tempos; alternates power and delicacy
3. 10:48 – very slow, very open celeste & piano with light, fragile harmony; second half treads oh-so carefully on cymbal percussion
4. 9:37 – pianos drift in, play a warped, winding blues in elastic tempo, go free
5. 12:33 – bluesy abstraction: piano/toy piano/melodica all in there together, alternating with free-flowing piano duet & heavy rhythmic sections
[ Fo ] - February 2012
Recent airplay
Flac
No Cover, No Minimum — Apr 06, 2012
Flocus
maximum entropy ii — Apr 05, 2012
Flac
No Cover, No Minimum — Mar 23, 2012
Flac
Ghost Trees — Mar 19, 2012
Flocus
maximum entropy ii — Mar 15, 2012
Flocus
Rebop — Feb 21, 2012
Charting
2012-02-05 — 2012-04-08
Jazz
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Apr 8 | 2 |
| Mar 25 | 2 |
| Mar 18 | 1 |
| Feb 26 | 2 |
| Feb 19 | 3 |
| Feb 12 | 1 |
Track listing
| 1. | Flac | ||
| 2. | Flocus | ||
| 3. | Para Waltz | ||
| 4. | Digestivo | ||
| 5. | Aperitivo |