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Sonic Openings Under Pressure: Muhheankuntuk

Read "Muhheankuntuk" reviewed by Nic Jones


For all of its commitment to a different aesthetic this could be a trio that takes its cues from the Ornette Coleman trio from some forty odd years ago with David Izenzon on bass and drummer Charles Moffett. As is so often the case, however, the comparison is as much hindrance as it is help in assessing the music they produce. The bass-drums cartel of Hilliard Greene and David Pleasant is coherent and propulsive enough in its ...

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Sonic Openings Under Pressure: Rapt Circle

Read "Rapt Circle" reviewed by Rex  Butters


Rapt Circle presents Patrick Brennan's sonic openings under pressure in two performances three weeks apart in June of 2002. Brennan played free, then worked with advanced compositional forms that blur lines between spontaneous and prepared, developing over fifty pieces. With a nod to Roscoe Mitchell, Brennan evolved an original sound that keeps the alto meaty and full of sass. Cecil Taylor/Leroy Jenkins/Dave Douglas alum Hilliard Green drives time with precision pops or rubberized slide. Drummer and Theremin enthusiast Newman Taylor ...

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Muhheankuntuk

Clean Feed Records
2007

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Rapt Circle

Unknown label
2005

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