Bynum, Taylor Ho & Spidermonkey Strings / Madeleine Dreams
| Album: | Madeleine Dreams | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Bynum, Taylor Ho & Spidermonkey Strings | Added: | Sep 2009 | |
| Label: | Firehouse 12 | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2009-10-25 | Pull Date: | 2009-12-27 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | Dec 27 | Dec 20 | Dec 6 | Nov 29 | Nov 22 | Nov 15 | Nov 1 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Dec 22, 2009: | Memory Select
Lesson |
4. | Nov 24, 2009: | Memory Select
Metamorphosis |
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| 2. | Dec 15, 2009: | Memory Select
What Reason Could I Give, Objects Lost on Journeys/Hush (reprise) |
5. | Nov 17, 2009: | Memory Select
Lesson |
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| 3. | Dec 01, 2009: | Memory Select
Angels And Demons At Play |
6. | Nov 14, 2009: | Music Casserole
Le Petomane |
Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2009-10-25
Reviewed 2009-10-25
TAYLOR HO BYNUM & SPIDERMONKEY STRINGS: Madeleine Dreams
Firehouse 12
AVANT-GARDE – Cornetist Bynum’s interesting group features a string quartet, tuba, guitar and drums, plus vocals. The first 6 tracks of this CD are a suite, with surrealist, poetic dream texts taken from a novel written by Bynum’s sister. The music is itself dreamlike, ethereal and calmly inscrutable. The rest is a tribute to Bynum’s musical heroes.
Taylor Ho Bynum - cornet, flugelhorn
Kyoko Kitamura - voice
Jason Kao Hwang - violin
Jessica Pavone - viola
Tomas Ulrich - cello
Pete Fitzpatrick - guitar
Joseph Daley - tuba
Luther Gray - drums
* * * * | Fo’s Picks: 2, 5, 8, 9
1. 1:34 – spoken word and slow, mysterious strings
2. 5:31 – relaxed, quietly padding rhythm, high stretched vocal, soft & sneaky
3. 2:31 – spoken word against chamber strings: tells a brief story
4. 2:48 – cornet & tuba skritch over dissonant strings; brief spoken word
5. 10:20 – longer, wide-ranging piece: follows a twisting dream with dynamic vocal, heavy shifting layers, melodic murmurs and quiet scribbles
6. 1:15 – spoken word; musically reprises #1
7. 4:16 – Ornette Coleman: cornet/tuba/drums; gives way to slow vocal/strings
8. 9:02 – Duke Ellington: atmospheric intro, then ghostly swing; vocal screech!
9. 8:25 – Sun Ra: space guitar, tumult, twisted march: everyone pulls together
[ Fo ] 10/25/09
Firehouse 12
AVANT-GARDE – Cornetist Bynum’s interesting group features a string quartet, tuba, guitar and drums, plus vocals. The first 6 tracks of this CD are a suite, with surrealist, poetic dream texts taken from a novel written by Bynum’s sister. The music is itself dreamlike, ethereal and calmly inscrutable. The rest is a tribute to Bynum’s musical heroes.
Taylor Ho Bynum - cornet, flugelhorn
Kyoko Kitamura - voice
Jason Kao Hwang - violin
Jessica Pavone - viola
Tomas Ulrich - cello
Pete Fitzpatrick - guitar
Joseph Daley - tuba
Luther Gray - drums
* * * * | Fo’s Picks: 2, 5, 8, 9
1. 1:34 – spoken word and slow, mysterious strings
2. 5:31 – relaxed, quietly padding rhythm, high stretched vocal, soft & sneaky
3. 2:31 – spoken word against chamber strings: tells a brief story
4. 2:48 – cornet & tuba skritch over dissonant strings; brief spoken word
5. 10:20 – longer, wide-ranging piece: follows a twisting dream with dynamic vocal, heavy shifting layers, melodic murmurs and quiet scribbles
6. 1:15 – spoken word; musically reprises #1
7. 4:16 – Ornette Coleman: cornet/tuba/drums; gives way to slow vocal/strings
8. 9:02 – Duke Ellington: atmospheric intro, then ghostly swing; vocal screech!
9. 8:25 – Sun Ra: space guitar, tumult, twisted march: everyone pulls together
[ Fo ] 10/25/09
Track Listing
| 1. | Hush | 6. | Hush (Reprise) | |||
| 2. | Le Petomane | 7. | What Reason Could I Give | |||
| 3. | Lesson | 8. | The Mooche | |||
| 4. | Metamorphosis | 9. | Angels And Demons At Play | |||
| 5. | Objects Lost On Journeys | . |