Empty Cage Quartet - Stratostrophic (2008)
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Free Improvisation, Avant Garde
~ Recorded at Luna Records in Los Angeles, CA, August 13-14, 2006 ~
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Clean Feed Records, cf 103 | ~ 392 or 165 Mb | Artwork(jpg) -> 25 Mb
Free Improvisation, Avant Garde
~ Recorded at Luna Records in Los Angeles, CA, August 13-14, 2006 ~
Stratostrophic, the sixth release by the Empty Cage Quartet (ECQ), finds the avant West Coasters full of ideas and limited by nothing. Their omnivorous approach gladly frustrates label taggers while rewarding informed listeners with advanced compositional and improvisational delights. Their continuing association pays off in an acquired looseness that revels in taking chances without losing the links that keep these sonic aerialists flying together. Inside/outside, silly/serious, ECQ's creative central heat liquefies such abstractions into a bold shower of musical sparks.
The set begins with the three-footed "Again A Gun Again A Gun Again A Gun." Drummer Paul Kikuchi and bassist Ivan Johnson create a stumbling rhythm for fiery Kris Tiner's raw trumpet to blaze across. Johnson gets solo time, then saxophonist Jason Mears plays call and response with Tiner, creating structure while Johnson and Kikuchi explore. "Old Ladies" features a cubist head swinging off kilter and Tiner solos with answers and wails coming from Mears, both always finding their ways back to the unison lines. The minimalist sound picture "Power of the Great" brings out Mears' clarinet, Tiner's mute and Johnson's bow. Kikuchi busily kicks off "We Are All Tomorrow's Food" and keeps it percolating under the others' laconic take on the theme. Mears catches up on clarinet, blasts past and then reins it in to repeat the theme. Tiner and Mears announce "Steps of the Ordinarily Unordinary" with a twisted toy army fanfare, sort of like Albert Ayler on Christmas morning, picked up by the rhythm section and marched around the tree. The haunting "Aurobindo" wafts like incense, Tiner's flugelhorn enriching the sound. "Through the Doorways of Escape Come the Footsteps of Capture" slowly evolves into a formidable midtempo groove that Tiner splatters with trumpetese. Johnson and Kikuchi shift gears for Mears to come aboard rolling octaves and squawks around in his mouth, powerfully sprinting ahead.
Empty Cage Quartet - Stratostrophic (2008):
Tracklist:
1 Again a Gun Again a Gun Again a Gun
2 Feerdom Is on the March
3 Old Ladies
4 The Power of the Great
5 We Are All Tomorrow's Food
6 Steps of the Ordinarily Unordinary
7 Aurobindo
8 Through the Doorways of Escape Come the Footsteps of Capture
9 Beedie and Bob
10 The Illusion of Transparency
11 Don't Hesitate To Change Your Mind
Musicians:
Jason Mears: alto saxophone, clarinet
Kris Tiner: trumpet, flugelhorn
Paul Kikuchi: drums, percussion, electronics
Ivan Johnson: double bass
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Empty Cage Quartet / Stratostrophic
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EAC extraction logfile from 15. January 2011, 2:37
Empty Cage Quartet / Stratostrophic
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