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| 1. | Consternation
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| 2. | After Hours
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| 3. | Bedlam
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| 4. | Gol Gham
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| 5. | Wire
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| 6. | Beauty Beauty
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| 7. | Quake
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| 8. | Sainted
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| 9. | Glass Bell
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| 10. | Biscuits
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Jazz
Modern Creative
Recorded: Jan 15-16, 2002
Erik Friedlander - Cello, Editing, Producer
Andy Laster - Sax (Alto)
Satoshi Takeishi - Percussion
Stomu Takeishi - Bass (Acoustic), Bass (Electric), Guitar (Bass)
Erik Friedlander is a remarkable 'cellist whose career is marked by a striking level of achievement and creativty in a variety of musical styles. For the past ten years he has performed with artists as diverse as Joe Lovano, John Zorn, and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg. Quake is Erik's third CD with his band Topaz, and features ten of his most inspired compositions, as well as pieces by the Persian songstress Googosh, and the Indian singer Lata Mangeshkar.
* Alex Cline - Cover Design
* Danny Littwin - Engineer
* Jeff Gauthier - Executive Producer
* Lee Melen - Photography
* Rich Breen - Editing, Mastering, Mixing
On Quake, downtown cello boss Erik Friedlander teams up with Japan's fraternal rhythm section the Takeishi brothers (Stomu and Satoshi on bass and drums, respectively) as well as alto saxophonist Andy Laster for a date of intimate, knotty new jazz. In working with an electric bassist in this setting, the opportunities for unique tonalities are everywhere and are exploited to some degree as they were on an earlier work, The Watchman. Over the years, however, Friedlander has become a composer of interesting ensembles and Quake's is no exception. What is so remarkable about the performances on this recording are details such as counterpoint; on the opener, Laster and Stomu have equal opportunities to engage Friedlander and each other for a knotty, but exhilarating, ride. On the erratically paced and wonderfully breathless "Wire," Friedlander brings shades of different jazz eras and styles to comprise the body of the composition while intense harmonic invention takes places in each musician's solo. The title cut uses Israeli folk themes to construct an ebb-and-flow narrative statement that engages elements of modal jazz, post-bop, klezmer, smoky, simmering funk, and other Middle Eastern music on its ride into ecstasy. Ultimately, Quake is a newer and finer example than anything before of Friedlander's unified vision of not only jazz but also the engagement of the dynamic and harmonic within an ensemble to create something that is compelling, beautiful, and unusual even in the outsider downtown tradition.
---Thom Jurek, All Music Guide
Erik Friedlander
Active Decades: '90s and '00s
Genre: Avntg
Styles: Modern Creative, Chamber Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz
Cellist Erik Friedlander grew up exposed to R&B and jazz since his father photographed many album covers for Atlantic during the '50s and '60s. During his childhood and high school years, Friedlander was involved in chamber groups, his school orchestra, and a local rock band. He enrolled at Columbia University in 1978 to pursue a music degree, but it wasn't until a year later, upon hearing and speaking with bassist Harvie Swartz, that Friedlander decided to become a professional musician. Shortly thereafter, he joined Swartz's quintet, and the group released Underneath It All on Gramavision. His idea of what role a cello could play in jazz and modern music changed when he heard Hank Roberts in the string trio Arcado. Not too long after this, Friedlander began working with saxophonists John Zorn and Marty Ehrlich and trumpeter Dave Douglas. He performs on Douglas' 1993 release on Soul Note entitled Parallel Worlds. The next year, he formed his own group, Chimera, a quartet with clarinetists Chris Speed and Andrew D'Angelo and bassist Drew Gress; the group has two CDs out on Zorn's labels, Avant and Tzadik. Friedlander still performs classical music -- he has been principal cellist with Marin Alsop's Concordia, for instance -- but is focusing more on composition and improvisation; he's toured the U.S. and Europe with Joe Lovano, Myra Melford, John Zorn, and more. Friedlander has made appearances in the pop realm, too, having contributed parts to CDs by Maxwell and Dar Williams; he even performed on MTV with Courtney Love's Hole. In 1996, he formed the group Topaz -- originally to accompany a dance recital his wife choreographed -- which brought together Andy Laster and the rhythm section of brothers Satoshi and Stomu Takeishi; they recorded a self-titled album (which Siam released) the end of that year. Besides being busy with Topaz, the close of the '90s found Friedlander playing in a new quartet inspired by the work of Balthus, called the Game of Patience, with Ikue Mori; Skin followed in early 2000. In 2001 he released Gates of Paradise for Tzadik's Radical Jewish Culture series, followed by Quake in 2003, a collaboration with rhythmic Japanese siblings Stomu and Satoshi Takeishi. That same year, Friedlander released his first solo outing, the sparkling and literate Maldoror. 2006 saw the release of Prowl.
---Joslyn Layne, All Music Guide |
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