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Strawberry Skinflint
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| The album Strawberry Skinflint (neat name, kind of sweet and stingy) by Shoup (on alto sax, natch), Bill Horist (guitar), and Mike Peterson (drums) under the name Ghidra is a multi-textured affair. With an electric guitar in the mix, that rock feeling is bound to arise. It does, but Horist coaxes lots of sounds from his ax, from the blatant power riff to an almost chime-like, oriental tone. He even makes an angular, electronic noise when it suits him. Heck, he's got a tower of Babel in his arms. Shoup answers those sounds with an alto poised somewhere between Ornette and Evan Parker, with the weepy blues feeling of Ornette taking a mostly backstage to Parker's acerbic abstractions. Though when that blues feel rises, like in the opening of "Plebe on Plebe" (this ain't the only mind twisting pun on the album, with "Spread the Worm" being my favorite and somehow strangely appropriate to the music it labels), it seems all the sweeter and rare. Peterson's addition is more minimal and nimble, it lets lots of space in, allows things to breathe with a sometimes delicate, sometimes brutal implied pulse. These three weave together an occasionally dense, occasionally spare musical tapestry. There seems to be a deep listening, a telling action and reaction to each other. Though completely spontaneous, the ideas never seem to stop and the tension conveyed by what might happen next sustains maximum interest. Just a real treat that rewards repeated listening. |
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Wally Shoup (alto sax); Bill Horist (guitar); Mike Peterson (drums) |
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