Ten Year Project


Artist: Ellery Eskelin

Label: Hatology

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Year: 2004
Format: CD

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So what of the ten year anniversary celebration? Well, I take this music as a sign that whatever I may want or think I want there are forces at work beyond my awareness and that improvised music can offer wonderful surprises if one is open to them. As for the band, we've been playing a lot in 2004 celebrating our anniversary. And so our celebration of a decade of music is marked with a project that does not look to the past but to the future. We look forward to celebrating that future with you in another ten years. — Ellery Eskelin

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Ellery Eskelin (tenor sax); Andrea Parkins (piano, accodion, sampler); Jim Black (drums, percussion); Marc Ribot (electric guitar); Melvin Gibbs (electric bass); Jessica Constable (voice)

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1. Brandt on 5/2/2011, said:

I find Ellery Eskelin's music remarkably consistent, especially with the trio that marks ten years of working together on this recording. The music is thoughtfully and carefully communicative (thoughtful even when it's crazy intense). This shows in the interplay of the musicians as well as in their ability to transmit feelings and sparks to listeners. Things get interesting on "Ten" when guests join the trio. It's a complicated record, with different combinations of six players at work across the tracks. Gibbs and Eskelin sound like they've been working together for years on "More Than That," and Constable likewise gives herself to the music in a way that makes it hers. I generally don't know what to do with Ribot--I never know if he has, or even wants to have, a distinctive voice. Whatever, he sounds good here. If "Ten" documents the complex stream that Eskelin, Parkins, and Black have created in their time together, it also shows what happens when (the right) others step into it: the flow changes and the eddies and channels shift, but it's still very much the same river. Nevertheless, too many feet and things get muddy. This is the case, I think, with the final track, which Andrea Parkins and Jim Black save from sounding too completely like a mid- to late-80s Laswell venture (not that there's anything wrong with that, but...). This is a great recording from a fantastic group of players, and I'll stop there.
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