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| "This long overdue reissue finally brings back to life the sessions recorded by the Czech pianist / composer Emil Viklicky with three American musicians: guitarist Bill Frisell, bassist Kermit Driscoll and drummer Vinton Johnson. Czech violinist Jan Beranek guests on one track. Viklicky got to know these musicians during his stint at the Berklee Collage of music in Boston and invited them over for the June 1979 session, which was quite an extraordinary event on the Czechoslovak scene during the Socialist times. Of the fourteen tracks recorded during these sessions, eight were released as the LP Window a year later, five as the A-side of the LP Door in 1985 and the last remained unreleased until 1997. Twelve of the tracks were composed by Viklicky and one each by Driscoll and Frisell. The music is a Jazz-Rock-Funk Fusion voyage, with Viklicky playing electric keyboards. The rapport between these musicians is truly extraordinary and the resulting music still keeps the listener twitching involuntarily in his shoes. Viklicky´s compositions are brilliant as always, and the Funky rhythms don´t conceal his unusual melodic approach. Frisell fans will find this early recording also very interesting, as he was still in the stage of developing his unique playing technique. This music remains as relevant, as it was at the time of the recording and in retrospect it was remarkably advanced and quite ahead of its time. Of the countless fusion recordings made in the 1970s and since, this music is one of the few examples of unique identity, which did not blend into the background. It should be quite a revelation for a new generation of listeners exposed to it for the first time, over three decades after it was recorded, as well as those Fusion lovers who think they have already heard it all. I enjoy it now as much as I did the first time around, hoping more people will discover it themselves. A must for every fusion connoisseur!" - Adam Baruch |
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ARTISTS
Bill Frisell (guitar); Emil Viklicky (keyboards); Kermit Driscoll (bass); Vinton Johnson (drums) |
TRACKS
Window
1.The Funky Way
2. They've Left The Window Open Again
3. Siesta
4. Jumbo Jet
5. Boston
6. Song For Jan Hammer
7. Once Again Sun
8. Maytime
Door
9. East 70th Street
10. C'est-ce Que Ca Peut Bien Etre
11. Fall
12. Take A Streetcar No.20
13. Those Are The Things
14. 43 Joy Street
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