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| Gigantomachia |
| Naked Future |
| első megjelenés éve: 2009 |
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| (2009)
[ DIGIPACK ]
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| 4.300 Ft
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| 1. | We Binge on a Bloodthirsty God
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| 2. | We Boil the Raven's Skull into Gold
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| 3. | We Engage the Monstrous with Our Mirrors
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| 4. | We Fly Beneath and Above the Flux
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| 5. | We Sleep in a Rabbit Hole
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Jazz
Recorded: 8/8/08, Silo, Portland, Oregon
Arrington de Dionyso: bass clarinet, contralto clarinet
Thollem McDonas: piano
John Niekrasz: drums
Greg Skloff: bass
Recorded 8/8/08 in Portland, OR, The Naked Future, is a quartet of four drunken wizards conjuring up a heady brew. Their diverse backgrounds - from the classical, rock and experimental realms - forge a release modernist in its construction with more than a pinch of old time alchemy. ESP is proud to welcome them to its circle with their first CD release, Gigantomachia.
After several solo albums and many shared projects pianist Thollem McDonas lays the unrelenting line on which futures can be built.
Delirious percussion is provided by John Niekrasz, a drummer and composer from Chicago. He is a disciple of Indian tabla master Pandit Lachu Maharaj and performs with Ecstatic Peace recording artists Poor School, syllabic-structuralists Why I Must Be Careful, and tight improv trio Thicket. He has collaborated and performed with such artists as John Wiese, Wally Shoup, John Gruntfest, and Doug Theriault.
Greg Skloff's "powertool" school of bass-fiddling is well refined, having graduated from such diverse groups as cloaca clock, Captain's Daughter, Thunder! Thunder! Thunder! and Counterfeit Monsters.
From his first solo works on Pine Cone Alley, his continuous work with the Old Time Relijun and solo work on K Records, Arrington de Dionyso has followed a trajectory to land him here, squarely in the Naked Future, handling the duties of conductor and bass clarinet.
Recorded and mixed by Nicholas Taplin
All pieces recorded as improvised by The Naked Future according to the conceptual directio of Arrington de Dionyso
All compositions Pine Cone Alley
Producton Manager: Tom Abbs
Mastered by Douglas McGregor
Artwork by Arrington de Dionyso
Band photo by Lucy Greene
Design & layout by Miles Bachman & Fumi Tomita
Spcial thanks to Robert M. Keefe
When an album has over the top songs titles like "We Boil the Raven's Skull Into Gold" and "We Binge on a Bloodthirsty God," one could easily assume that it contains some type of metal -- perhaps death metal or black metal, or perhaps thrash metal. Gigantomachia, however, is not a metal album; actually, the focus of the Naked Future is instrumental free jazz. But as writer David Keenan points out in the liner notes that he wrote for this 2008 recording, there are parallels between avant-garde jazz and in-your-face rock (including punk). Keenan notes that Cecil Taylor and Albert Ayler, like Iggy Pop & the Stooges, were icononoclasts -- and Gigantomachia certainly has an iconoclastic outlook. Some avant-garde jazz favors an inside/outside approach, but this 47-minute CD is defiantly outside all the way. Gigantomachia thrives on dissonance and atonal chaos -- and while the results aren't quite as ferocious as John Coltrane circa 1966/1967 or Charles Gayle, this album still offers a loud, forceful, explosive dose of free jazz intensity. The Naked Future (bass clarinetist Arrington de Dionyso, pianist Thollem McDonas, bassist Gregg Skloff and drummer John Niekrasz) are as hellbent for outside expression on the abovementioned performances as they are on "We Sleep in a Rabbit Hole," "We Engage the Monstrous with Our Mirrors," and "We Fly Beneath and Above the Flux." Gigantomachia isn't groundbreaking by 2008 standards, and it isn't a remarkable album. But it's a decent effort that is worth hearing if one fancies free jazz discs that savor the outside from start to finish. ~ Alex Henderson, All Music Guide |
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