Skaller/Holt Duo / Music Of Mark Dresser
Album: Music Of Mark Dresser   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Skaller/Holt Duo   Added:Feb 2012
Label:PfMENTUM  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2012-02-05 Pull Date: 2012-04-08 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Apr 8 Mar 25 Mar 18 Feb 26 Feb 19 Feb 12
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Recent Airplay
1. Apr 06, 2012: No Cover, No Minimum
Flac
4. Mar 19, 2012: Ghost Trees
Flac
2. Apr 05, 2012: maximum entropy ii
Flocus
5. Mar 15, 2012: maximum entropy ii
Flocus
3. Mar 23, 2012: No Cover, No Minimum
Flac
6. Feb 21, 2012: Rebop
Flocus

Album Review
Fo
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

Track Listing
1. Flac   3. Para Waltz
2. Flocus   4. Digestivo
  5. Aperitivo