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| Drunk on the Blood of the Holy Ones |
| The Fully Celebrated |
| első megjelenés éve: 2009 |
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| (2009)
[ DIGIPACK ENHANCED ]
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| 4.221 Ft
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| 1. | Moose and Grizzly Bear's Ville
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| 2. | Reptoid Alliance
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| 3. | Drunk on the Blood of the Holy Ones
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| 4. | Brothers of Heliopolis
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| 5. | Enemy of Both Sides
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| 6. | Pearl's Blues
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| 7. | Conotocarius
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| 8. | Dew of May
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Jazz
Recorded: October 6, 2008, Systems Two Studio, Brooklyn
Jim Hobbs: alto saxophone
Timo Shanko: bass
Django Carranza: drums
+ enhanced CD: hi-res version (audio+video) animated film
Can U Do The Mackie Burnette? ...10.02
Produced by Jim Hobbs & Steven Joerg
Recorded by Michael Marciano
Masterfully mixed with and mastered by Michael Marciano at STS.
Cover artwork/design by Jason Fairchild
Can U Do The Mackie Burnette? video by Jason Fairchild & Jasper Hobbs;
check it now on YouTube (note that the audio is pretty lo-res here!)
Long one of Boston's musical gems, The Fully Celebrated (Orchestra) have always been Jim Hobbs: alto sax, Timo Shanko: bass, and Django Carranza: drums. A jazz band playing the rock clubs like the young punks they were, developing along the way into the sages they have become. Following a series of European and self-releases, Drunk on the Blood of the Holy Ones is their auspicious AUM Fidelity debut: a stellar set of all new compositions, recorded live in the studio and then mixed utilizing the latest dub technology. The album (as the group itself) cannot be stylistically pegged as each piece is a fully different / fully realized aural experience of transformative and deep tail-feather-shaking potential.
Principal composer/band leader Jim Hobbs is an untouchably gifted master of the alto saxophone; he impeccably produces a holy / wholly cogent array of sounds from his horn which the instrument was not originally designed to manifest. The Fully Celebrated band here wield an incomparable arsenal of ways and means to transform yr present moment through mighty song and trio massage. Joyous bounce and sway, punkolodic riffage, mesmerizing incantation/cosmic groove & the stone flux title cut version of the classic Stalag riddim, dubfully rendered in Brooklyn on the eve of Election ‘08 with dew of ‘09 in mind.
The CD also contains an embedded music video: the animated skateboard groove and flex film "Can You Do The Mackie Burnette?" which also features cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, who was a member of The FCO for a time at the dawn of this century.
Joy is the aim; celebrate fully! .
---SJ
The Fully Celebrated is a pared down, trio version of the Fully Celebrated Orchestra, dedicated to the style of Ornette Coleman in that alto saxophonist Jim Hobbs is clearly influenced by Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Arthur Blythe, and the like. Hobbs has achieved his own personal sound, a leaner, trimmed, and fat free voice that has plenty of room to roam freely while keeping within a framework of funky beats, no time, and occasionally off-kilter or angular expressions that can now identify him as an individualist. If the title or cover art draws suggested religious, renaissance, or pirate derived motifs, they are somewhat humorous and ironic reference points, for the music is unabashedly modern, progressive, and bold without being scarred or sanguine. The contemporary side mixed with improvisation holds forth from the opener, "Moose and Grizzly Bear's Ville," to the faster "Reptoid Alliance," or the lithe, head nodding, danceable, stand-out piece "Enemy of Both Sides" as the anxious, rambling mind of Hobbs is identified by his frequently doled out squawky accents and punctuations. Changing tempos at will during "Conotocarius," the trio traverses easily from fractured nuances to funky dance moves, free flying glide and mass chaos. The title track has a ritual motif in a two-beat frame that is at times overblown, inebriated to some extent, centered by the plopping drum flams of Django Carranza. Bassist Timo Shanko sports a style similar to the soulful and folkish refrains of Charlie Haden on his introductory solo of "Pearl's Blues/Your What Hurts?," a walking motion suggesting it's your swollen feets that feel discomfort via the strained alto of Hobbs. Soulful ruminations identify "Brothers of the Heliopolis" with a patient solo from Shanko, while "Dew of May" is a mourning in the morning, circadian cycle developed piece, a slow riser to a light jog with subtle kineticism, and car driving music to get one through a spring day. Spare music yet fully formed, this talented trio provides interesting sounds all listeners of creative improvised music should thoroughly enjoy. ~ Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide |
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