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| 1. | Birdman
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| 2. | Shubunkins
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| 3. | The Hands Are Just Shadows
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Jazz
Mujician
Keith Tippett - Chimes, Piano, Wood Block
Dunmall - Engraving, Sax (Alto), Sax (Tenor), Shenai
Paul Rogers - Double Bass
Tony Levin - Drums, Percussion
* Eiko Iwasawa - Photography
* Paula Millet - Design
* Simon Clarke - Engineer, Mixing
* Steve Allan - Engineer, Mixing
Mujician are an extraordinary UK improvising/free jazz quartet, featuring Keith Tippett-piano, Paul Dunmall-reeds, Paul Rogers-bass, & Tony Levin-drums. Intense-yet-controlled, with dynamic interplay from all four musicians. Mujician's music is notable for its wide range of musical interplay, its contrast between fiery freedom & calm melodies, and for it's wide variety of tonal color. They manage to be both ''avant garde'' & ''in the tradition''.
"The interplay among the four musicians is incredible - this is a listening band. The music may be unfettered & spontaneous, but the players are disciplined & sympathetic to the musical moment."
--- Goldmine
"...in the fine tradition of the Art Ensemble, Roland Kirk, or Mingus at his most out; solid intuitive, organic improvisation with all concerned leanding their ears. A-"
--- Montreal Mirror
"A major statement by a very fine band"
---The Wire
Recording again after a two-year interval, and again in front of a small live audience, Mujician offers more of its unique style of wide-ranging collective improvisation. This CD consists of three long, diffuse pieces, with one just under 30 minutes and another just over that length. On the somewhat austere and abstract title piece, Paul Dunmall displays a very tart, biting tenor, and the playing of other members is hard-edged and tightly controlled. Dunmall signals the shifting dynamic of the second piece by opening on the Chinese shenai, a nasal-sounding reed instrument, while Paul Rogers, Tony Levin and Keith Tippett all skitter percussively behind him. Tippett then takes over on a tinny prepared piano before Dunmall returns on alto sax, playing fluttery, flight-of-the-bumblebee lines mixed with occasional squawks. An early highlight of this piece is an exchange between Dunmall and drummer Levin, trading fours in a way that is both free and highly disciplined. Rogers has a long turn on bass, and then the dialogue continues in a rather thoughtful and restrained manner until the end of the piece. The final selection, "The Hands Are Just Shadows," opens with some ecstatic, Pharoah Sanders-style wailing from Dunmall, but which, typically for Mujician, doesn't escalate and sustain the energy according to free-jazz convention, but rather backs off for some gentle exchanges before another squalling flourish by Dunmall and then a quiet, lyrical finish by Tippett. With Mujician, the rule of thumb is to expect the unexpected. Their music is affirmative but never trite and it seems to embrace virtually all musical and emotional possibilities.
---William Tilland, All Music Guide
Mujician
Active Decades: '90s and '00s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Modern Creative, Avant-Garde, Jazz-Pop, Free Jazz, Free Improvisation
The improvising quartet Mujician was formed in 1988. Mujician's members are Paul Dunmall (reeds), Tony Levin (percussion), Paul Rogers (bass), and Keith Tippett (piano). Dunmall was classically trained on clarinet. Levin (not the King Crimson member) studied drums and jazz from age 13 and became a professional at 17. Rogers is self-taught. Tippett has played with his 50-piece ensemble, Centipede, and was a studio member of King Crimson from 1970 through 1972. The group has performed at music festivals in England and Italy, and played with improvisers in Tbilisi, GA, in 1991. Mujician's first CD, The Journey, consisted of a single hour-long track recorded before a large festival audience. Their second release, Poem About the Hero, contains five improvisations from two to 30 minutes in length, recorded before a small, invited audience. Colours Fulfilled followed in 1998, their first studio recording. The group has remained active, but they're taking more time between issuing recordings. The collaborative Bristol Concert was recorded in 1991 (but not released until 2000), so the actual follow up to Colours Fulfilled (Spacetime) wasn't recorded until 2001. Five years later saw the release of There's No Going Back Now.
---Jim Dorsch, All Music Guide |
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