Birthdays


Artist: John Russell

Label: Emanem

Price: $16.95

Year: 2011
Format: CD

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"Russell and Turner play 'acoustic' instruments, but this release works because it uses digital recording and the CD medium. It proves that free improvisation was ahead of its time in its conviction that silence and intimate, tiny sounds had a place right next to explosive thunder and death-walls. Improv veterans like Russell and Turner are well situated. They are virtuosi, electrically sensitive to the merest wisp of sound. Their lifelong attention to minute detail and microscopic interaction has produced a truly special art.

This is an astonishing record. Total concentration on the note impinging on the ear in real-time eschews considerations of over-arching structure and the contrivances of modulation. This music arises out of the same drive to articulate the hidden glories of the material that led abstract painters to abandon representation as kitsch, a mere trick better performed by photography. BIRTHDAYS is the aural equivalent to the mind-blowing smears and drips and stains of Asgar John and Willem de Kooning."

ARTISTS
John Russell (acoustic guitar); Roger Turner (pedal drums, assorted percussion)

TRACKS
1 - IN YOUR ABSINTHE - 7:06
2 - GHOSTS OF A CHANCE - 10:09
3 - THE MONTHLY HOUSE - 5:03
4 - SITTING ON CEREMONY - 4:08
5 - WHAT FEELING - 10:42
6 - ROMNEY MARSH - 2:57
7 - THE BEAR AND KEY - 7:17
8 - GONE ZWICHEN - 1:51
9 - INNA LIFETIME - 3:34
10 - OTTLEY - 15:31

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