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Adam Linson: Figures and Grounds
by John Eyles
The personnel of double-bassist Adam Linson's System Quartet is so good that it sets the juices flowing even before a note of music has been heard. Figures and Grounds was recorded in January 2008, when Linson still lived in Berlin, and he took full advantage of his adopted city's resources, recruiting trumpeter Axel Dörner, bass clarinetist Rudi Mahall plus expat English drummer Paul Lytton. Linson says that his role in bringing this group together was to provide a ...
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by John Eyles
Whatever your reaction to the words “solo bass album, Adam Linson's debut will probably change your mind. Previously best known--if at all--as the bassist in Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble on The Eleventh Hour (ECM, 2005), Linson is here given centre stage and produces a recording that commands attention. His album of solo double bass largely eschews the virtuoso vocabulary that one might expect, substituting a closely recorded, tightly focussed sound in which it is never entirely clear where playing ends ...
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