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| | | em (japan) #em 1045 cd roland p. young “isophonic boogie woogie” compact disc - crystal motions (kalimba / voice / soprano saxophone)
- flutter fly flounce (clarinet)
- row land (electronic bass clarinet)
- loveliness (bells / chimes / electronic drone / soprano saxophone)
- velvet dream (electronic bass clarinet)
- magenta sky (electronic accountrements / soprano saxophone)
- stillness (electronic pulse & drone / clarinet)
| | click the play button to hear an excerpt of "crystal motions / velvet dream" |
| i didn’t know this record before i ordered it, but i’m very glad i did (for the record, it was the “afro-minimal-free-electronic-drone-music!!!” quote that helped me decide...)
“isophonic boogie woogie” is a set of 7 pieces for various instrumentation and electronics, coming from a more jazz-fusion place that other era experimenteers - think “the electrifying eddie harris” and bennie maupin’s work on herbie hancock’s “sextant” over folks like george lewis and/or richard teitlebaum. there’s a fair bit of eastern-leaning drones w/accompaniment, a very cool minimalist-leaning kalimba/tape-echo & voice piece (which sounds uncannily like something greg davis would do), and even a contemporary machine-music lineage electronic funk track that’s a little too cd101.9 for my tastes .
i could easily see how fans of ben vida’s birdshow project or other like-minded armchair ethnomusicology followers would go ape-shit over this... |
| | reissue of the legendary 5-track first lp (plus 2 bonus tracks) from horn wizard & original underground fm radio dj young, featuring soprano sax, clarinet, and electronically-processed bass clarinet. an enjoyable outing from a neglected musician. cosmic afro mimimal electronic winds recorded in 1970s san francisco.
below: babelfish translation from the japanese label info...
on the '70 age latter half independence the unique ƒ… album which is produced. the deep meditation work to which the electro- minimal music and the music encountered, assure the communication with the space outside outer space inside oneself.
* background of isophonic boogie woogie *
- the roland young? -
the roland p. young, from '60 age in '70 age served the dj program producer with berkeley and san francisco underground, fm paralleled with the activity of the musician, it was the person who continued to dispatch the message of music/idea/religion/politics, supported also the black panther party in that first stage (rear year in their military force fights to advocate different meaning, you stopped support). as a leader of sound of ƒ… jazz and it is active in '70 age first stage announcing the album. however, radical speech and behavior with the radio becomes problem and but (received also tremendous support to part) lays off from fm bureau. what that it devotes to music activity in period, passes the production period a little more than of 2 years from 1978 age and in 1980 announces with independent production is this 1st solo album ' iso phonic '. if that word is borrowed, this work since him awaking as a musician, the distance of of electronic of 25 years/acoustic, and jazz, is the comprehensive body of chamber music, , the world music and those encounters, those where that just has echoed in one. besides the fact that trip to space outside outer space inside oneself is urged, it became the thought work which does not have type. |
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