(Avantgarde / Jazz Rock) Ned Rothenberg / Elliott Sharp / Samm Bennett - Semantics [Vinyl] - 1985, MP3 (tracks), 256 kbps

© 1985 Rift [RIFT 9] Ned Rothenberg / Elliott Sharp / Samm Bennett - Semantics [Vinyl] (1985) Жанр: Avantgarde / Jazz Rock Год выпуска диска: 1985 Производитель диска: USA Аудио кодек: MP3, 256 kbps Тип рипа: tracks Продолжительность: 44:45 This music took the top of my head off when I first heard it as a teen on the radio in L.A. and twenty some years on, it still seems like a high water mark not only for Sharp but for the whole sprawling Downtown NY music culture of the mid-80's. Samm Bennett's octopoidal percussion work here is pure jawdropping polyrhythmic genius and, when set against Rothenberg's endless circular-breathing curlicues of vaguely joujouka-ish spiral motion and the alternately coruscating and Magic Band-plangent fretwork of Sharp (on a custom double-necked guitar/bass) frequently escalates the proceedings into zones of ecstatic group-mind genius that are unsurpassable. This is never more true than on the overwhelming ever-building North African by way of no wave cacophany of "Terra Firma" and the pin-you-to-your-seat drama of "Vliet's Van", a track that I can only describe as sounding like The Magic Band interpreting Lalo Schifrin' theme music to Enter The Dragon; easily one of my favorite pieces of music of all time. Трэклист: 01. Terra Firma (7:52) 02. Small Business (3:21) 03. Direct Dial Dirge (4:11) 04. Split Shift (2:54) 05. Vliet's Van (4:41) 06. Big Business (6:28) 07. Funnel Beaker B (2:05) 08. The Midst Of Other Solitaries (3:47) 09. Didi! It's The Other Foot! (3:41) 10. Hole In The Pocket (5:45)