(Jazz, Instrumental, World Music, Percussion) The New Percussion Group Of Amsterdam (feat. Bill Bruford & Keiko Abe) - Go Between - (1987) 2007, MP3, 320 kbps

The New Percussion Group of Amsterdam was founded in 1980 by two solo percussionists of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Symphony Orchestra, Jan Pustjens and Niels Le Large, specifically to bring new and adventurous percussion works to a young and modern audience. This re-mastered edition of Go Between comprises four long tracks of material written specifically for the project and its two stellar featured artists...
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The album ‘Go Between’ was originally released in 1987 (on E'G Records) but has been unavailable since 1992.
track 1 Composer – Ruud Wiener
track 2 Composer – Niels Le Large
track 3 Composer – Minoru Miki
track 4 Composer – Peter Prommel

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This newly remastered CD of the original 1986 recording finds perpetually brilliant prog-rock and jazz drummer Bill Bruford performing with The New Percussion Group of Amsterdam and influential Japanese percussionist Keiko Abe. Highlighted by four lengthy and very musical works, the rhythmic aspects are designed with polytonal hues, and multilayered textural components.
On "Go Between," Bruford and three mallet players combine odd-metered time signatures with razor-sharp precision amid regimented unison workouts. In effect, they perform a string of passages comprising warmly crafted timbres, and genteel world-beat pulses. Yet Bruford slams matters into overdrive on occasion with prog-rock like aplomb but shows his broad vernacular, whether he’s executing African tribal-like grooves or when softly swashing a cymbal.
The drummer’s inimitable sound and style offers the edge during these multicultural percussion vamps. And Abe’s softly enacted marimba phrasings on "Marimba Spiritual," reaffirms the producers' assertion that this piece in particular serves as the most "classical" composition on the album. Here, the artists’ use of bells, woodblocks, shimi-daiko drums and other indigenous instruments, provide the melodic overtones along with a hodgepodge of subtle surprises. To that end, imagery of mystical environs reappear within various segments of the entire album. Sure enough, it’s a curiously interesting sound spectacle, firmed-up by the musicians’ extraordinary characterizations of the world’s heartbeat.
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Line-up:
Bill Bruford — percussion, drums
Keiko Abe — marimba
Peter Prommel — percussion, gong, marimba, xylophone, vibraphone, log drums, o-daiko
Jan Pustjens — conductor
Herman Rieken — percussion, gong, marimba, xylophone, vibraphone, log drums, shimi-daiko
Steef Van Oosterhout — percussion, gong, marimba, log drums
Ruud Wiener — percussion, marimba, xylophone, vibraphone