- Audio CD (Sep 24 2002)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Thirsty Ear
- ASIN: B00006JCHR
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #207,243 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Double Cross |
| 2. Amassed |
| 3. Wormwood |
| 4. Lit |
| 5. Maroc |
| 6. 100 Years Before |
| 7. Duel |
| 8. Obscured |
Product Description
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Starting with 2001's Masses, an all-star effort featuring Matthew Shipp and a cast of downtown jazz luminaries, Spring Heel Jack's Ashley Wales and John Coxon have sculpted free-jazz source material into sometimes brilliant, but always interesting, sound collages. With Amassed, the duo use Shipp again, but lean heavily on European players like drummer Han Bennink and saxophonist Evan Parker, as well as guitarist Jason Pierce, leader of the space-rock band Spiritualized. The music is often surprisingly subdued and sometimes downright lovely--on "Lit," Kenny Wheeler plays a soulful trumpet over slowly shifting organ chords until the sound of a crumpling can finishes off the song. Things are their most cacophonous on "Duel," when Parker and Bennink go toe to toe as other sounds slowly move in and surround the two players, finally drowning them out for a time. Dynamic, imaginative, and overwhelming, Amassed defines this new fusion genre by realizing many of the possibilities of both electronic production advances and avant-garde jazz. --Tad Hendrickson
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Parmi ceux qui ont le mieux compris, en matière de jazz, ce que l'on peut tirer de la rencontre entre acoustique et électronique, le label Thirsty Ear et la collection "The Blue Series", animée par le pianiste Matthew Shipp, sont à la pointe. Et cela depuis Masses, premier album du duo Spring Heel Jack, constitué de John Coxon et Ashley Wales, où l'on retrouvait, parmi les invités, des habitués du free jazz et des musiques improvisées les plus débridées, dont Roy Campbell, Tim Berne, Daniel Carter, Mat Maneri, William Parker ou Guillermo E. Brown. Sur son second opus intitulé Amassed, le duo reprend la même formule avec des invités en commun (Evan Parker, Matthew Shipp, George Trebar), et d'autres, différents, dont Kenny Wheeler, Paul Rutherford ou Han Bennink. Enfin, le terme "electrojazz", qui désigne une fusion parfois bâtarde, trouve toute sa signification : celle d'une musique audacieuse où acoustique et electro se répondent suivant le principe des vases communicants dans un subtil dosage pour le moins expérimental. Dans la même série, comme dans le même registre, le pape de l'illbient new-yorkais DJ Spooky a également réalisé un disque fort réussi : Optometry. --Philippe Robert
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5.0 out of 5 stars
improvisation and force override electronics,
By manuel mena l. (Santiago de Chile Chile) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Amassed Featuring Jason Pierc (Audio CD)
Sometimes I think that music sellers believe that we net-surfers are stupid, or that its is more important for us what we read on the Internet than what we hear. Please don't misunderstand me: this is an excellent record, but it is not drum n'bass at all. Electronics are one more free instrument (it reminds me in many places the mid '70s pieces by Braxton and Teitelbaum), and acoustic instruments this wild cannot surrender to an athmospheric, steady tempo, similar to what Nils Petter Molvaer or Jon Hassel do. This is free jazz at its best!
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5.0 out of 5 stars
improvisation and force override electronics,
By manuel mena l. - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Amassed Featuring Jason Pierc (Audio CD)
Sometimes I think that music sellers believe that we net-surfers are stupid, or that its is more important for us what we read on the Internet than what we hear. Please don't misunderstand me: this is an excellent record, but it is not drum n'bass at all. Electronics are one more free instrument (it reminds me in many places the mid '70s pieces by Braxton and Teitelbaum), and acoustic instruments this wild cannot surrender to an athmospheric, steady tempo, similar to what Nils Petter Molvaer or Jon Hassel do. This is free jazz at its best!
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