(Avantgarde / Jazz Rock) Ned Rothenberg / Elliott Sharp / Samm Bennett - Semantics [Vinyl] - 1985, MP3 (tracks), 256 kbps

Ned Rothenberg / Elliott Sharp / Samm Bennett - Semantics [Vinyl] (1985)#777Жанр: Avantgarde / Jazz Rock
Год выпуска диска: 1985
Производитель диска: USA
Аудио кодек: MP3, 256 kbps
Тип рипа: tracks
Продолжительность: 44:45
This music took the top of my head off when I first heard it as a teen on the radio in L.A. and twenty some years on, it still seems like a high water mark not only for Sharp but for the whole sprawling Downtown NY music culture of the mid-80's. Samm Bennett's octopoidal percussion work here is pure jawdropping polyrhythmic genius and, when set against Rothenberg's endless circular-breathing curlicues of vaguely joujouka-ish spiral motion and the alternately coruscating and Magic Band-plangent fretwork of Sharp (on a custom double-necked guitar/bass) frequently escalates the proceedings into zones of ecstatic group-mind genius that are unsurpassable. This is never more true than on the overwhelming ever-building North African by way of no wave cacophany of "Terra Firma" and the pin-you-to-your-seat drama of "Vliet's Van", a track that I can only describe as sounding like The Magic Band interpreting Lalo Schifrin' theme music to Enter The Dragon; easily one of my favorite pieces of music of all time.
Трэклист:
01. Terra Firma (7:52)
02. Small Business (3:21)
03. Direct Dial Dirge (4:11)
04. Split Shift (2:54)
05. Vliet's Van (4:41)
06. Big Business (6:28)
07. Funnel Beaker B (2:05)
08. The Midst Of Other Solitaries (3:47)
09. Didi! It's The Other Foot! (3:41)
10. Hole In The Pocket (5:45)