Here he provides enough edge-of-the-seat acoustic jazz swing to satisfy those traditionalists who reach for the off-button when they hear a drum'n'bass lick, as well as a generally successful intermingling of surprisingly orthodox, linear jazzy phrasing with spare bursts of hip-hop chatter and spooky urban noise. On It Ain't the Same, Minneapolis singer-songwriter Jack Klatt offers hope that love and joy can still overcome the darkness of a world turned upside down. And everything grinds to a halt, or, rather, spirals off into the ether, with the free Tangerine Dream redux of "Nu Matrix", with FLAM seizing the means of production to interject some spacy ambience under Jamal's wind-chime stabs. By the time things have turned to Quartet West territory for the second half, it has become beautiful and portentous, but nothing that couldn't be done by any other jazz group. The Penguin Guide to Jazz notes that "FLAM never seems fully integrated into music which retains its power through old-fashioned jazz staples such as improvisational interplay and rhythmical momentum. 
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Matthew Shipp: Equilibrium
Popmatters is wholly independently owned and operated. While Nu Bop was not a completely rounded statement, there was enough to make much of the current scene sound as if its musical clock had stopped 40 years ago. Then we are shocked to hear all the fat being pulled out of the fire on "Cohesion". And if Shipp's piano improvisations over the most loop-like of episodes occasionally sound stuck compared with his ingenuity in the loose sections, the constantly moving collective energy more than compensates.
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Matthew Shipp: Equilibrium
Here the rhythmic climate was unequivocal, mixing acoustic drums with programmed beats and sampled sounds. The next track, "Vamp equilibriuum Vibe", is the most perfectly-named thing on the record. Shipp has become known for bridging the worlds of free jazz, sampling and dancefloor grooves, and this is his best resolution of the genres yet. Here, employing the talents of bassist William Parkerdrummer Gerald Cleavervibraphonist Khan Jamaland electronics and programming whiz ShppShipp moves to extend the reach of all of his previous musical excursions by putting them all to work on a single recording.
The 10 Best Electronic Albums of Revisiting our best electronic albums fromwe find these records have stood the test of time. The ensemble creates a series of contrapuntal exercises based around an engaged series of encounters between Shipp and Jamal. Sign in or sign up to upload and share your publicity or live event photos. This expanded edition from Cherry Red Records makes the case for hearing it free of the baggage of that alt marthew era.
There are nine cuts, beginning with the stellar, pointillistic title track. Start your music shopping from All About Jazz and you'll support us in the process. Accept Reject Privacy Policy Equilirbium use cookies on our site to personalize content and ads, provide social media features, equilibrihm analyze our traffic.
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Brown have issued discs on this equuilibrium, but its most prolific musician so far no surprises here has been its curator. In his review for AllMusicThom Jurek states "Shipp, whose restless vision is never clouded by grandiosity or pretense, has become the most important pianist on the scene today.
The other musicians wander in and chase each other around for a while, but cannot save this from being a gentle but aimless piece that refuses to settle into the memory. For Pros Sign in or sign up to upload and share your publicity or live event photos. It reminds me that equilibrium, in chemical terms, is stasis -- I get through the whole thing without hearing much chemistry at all.
In the liner notes, he talks about this as the "synthesis of what I've learned from all my other Blue Series albums". Retrieved from " https: Everyone here is really really good, but I don't know what makes it all Blue Series.
Look for it, then click the link to activate your account. The title track is also the opener, a piece of almost neo-classical ambient jazzstuff. Shipp is also fairly audacious in the way this LP is structured. Jamal's relentless soloing fails to take charge, Cleaver remains in tap-tap mode, and FLAM is nowhere to be heard. And everything grinds to a halt, or, rather, spirals off into the ether, with the free Tangerine Dream redux of "Nu Matrix", with FLAM seizing the means of production to interject some spacy ambience under Jamal's wind-chime stabs.
The swinging one-minute trifle "Portal" ushers in "The Root", which then focuses that energy into a very modern acid-jazz groove courtesy of FLAM and Cleaver. Shippwhose restless vision is never clouded by grandiosity or pretense, has become the most important pianist on the scene today.
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