(Free Improvisation / Avant-Garde / World Fusion) Ned Rothenberg / Tony Buck / Stomu Takeishi / Dave Tronzo - The Fell Clutch - 2006, FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Ned Rothenberg / Tony Buck / Stomu Takeishi / Dave Tronzo - The Fell Clutch Жанр: Free Improvisation / Avant-Garde / World Fusion Год выпуска диска: 2006 Производитель диска: USA (Animul 105) Аудио кодек: FLAC Тип рипа: image+.cue Битрейт аудио: lossless Продолжительность: 1:15:26Ned Rothenberg: bass clarinet, clarinet, alto saxophone Tony Buck: drums Stomu Takeishi: fretless bass Dave Tronzo: slide guitar1. Moment of Reloading 2. Life in Your Years 3. Food for a Rambling 4. No Memes, Mom 5. Paint Drum 6. Brainy and Footsy 7. Dream by Day 8. The Violet Sheds 9. Epic in Difference 10. Ashes  DMG ReviewThe Fell Clutch love to twist its grooves inside-out. Ned establishes the groove on the opening piece, "moment of reloading" on his bass clarinet with Tony playing skeletal drums, Stomu throbbing those cool bass swirls and Dave playing his fractured slide sounds. Stomu's sly, distinctive fretless bass sound starts off "life in your years" with Ned's sumptuous clarinet and Dave's haunting slide slowly swirling around one another, a superb gem. What is most wonderful about this disc is that although it is mostly improvised, this trio or quartet sound as if they are playing mainly charted pieces, so focused is the overall sound. On "food for a rambling", Ned sets up an odd groove with a bent sax -line that he repeats and twists into odd shapes as he circular breathes with the bass and drums punctuate his groove. It's always great to hear Tronzo make his guitar talk, which he does on a number of these pieces with his wah-wah slide playing. I dig the way the guitar, bass & drums often set up these great little grooves, sometimes a bit bent but always infectious in one way or another. "epic in difference" is in fact an epic-length piece that begins with immense suspense, floats eerily with Ned playing dijeradoo-like bass clarinet. The bass and guitar sound like mutant ghosts as Tony plays alarm clock-like cymbals. It builds in intensity as it develops, feeling like some sort of ritualistic dance of the spirits. This is a most mesmerizing journey through some dark lands. An awesome endeavor from a fine quartet downtown's best.The Fell Clutch (Animul 105) The Fell Clutch feature Ned Rothenberg on bass & regular clarinets & alto sax, Stomu Takeishi on fretless electric bass, Tony Buck on drums and Dave Tronzo on slide guitar (3 tracks only). There was rave review of this quartet playing live in Brooklyn last year by Andre Henkin in All About Jazz, so I've been eagerly awaiting this disc to arrive. And what an amazing and unlikely downtown all-star quartet this is. I recall Ned Rothenberg sitting in with Spanish Fly (Tronzo, Steve Bernstein & Marcus Rojas) in the recent past and fretless bass god, Stomu Takeishi (Threadgill's Make a Move & Myra Melford) has been a longtime partner with Tronzo in his trios/duo throughout the years, so that's where these connections were made. Australian drum wiz, Tony Buck (The Necks), has been coming to town pretty often in the last few years and has played at a couple of Zorn's monthly improv sessions at The Stone, which is where this quartet first played together. Enough history. Which brings us to this colossal trio and quartet date. ~ Bruce Gallanter, DMG  EAC ReportExact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009EAC extraction logfile from 26. January 2010, 21:36Ned Rothenberg / Tony Buck / Stomu Takeishi / The Fell ClutchUsed drive : hp DVD-RAM GH40L Adapter: 0 ID: 1Read mode : Secure Utilize accurate stream : Yes Defeat audio cache : Yes Make use of C2 pointers : NoRead offset correction : 667 Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes Used interface : Installed external ASPI interfaceUsed output format : User Defined Encoder Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s Quality : High Add ID3 tag : No Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe Additional command line options : -6 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=EAC FLAC -6" %sTOC of the extracted CD Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector --------------------------------------------------------- 1 | 0:00.00 | 4:18.04 | 0 | 19353 2 | 4:18.04 | 7:06.63 | 19354 | 51366 3 | 11:24.67 | 4:27.19 | 51367 | 71410 4 | 15:52.11 | 8:44.61 | 71411 | 110771 5 | 24:36.72 | 7:40.64 | 110772 | 145335 6 | 32:17.61 | 5:10.14 | 145336 | 168599 7 | 37:28.00 | 10:14.30 | 168600 | 214679 8 | 47:42.30 | 4:45.30 | 214680 | 236084 9 | 52:27.60 | 15:20.32 | 236085 | 305116 10 | 67:48.17 | 7:37.69 | 305117 | 339460Range status and errorsSelected range Filename C:\Users\Igor\Music\eac\Rothenberg Buck Takeishi - The Fell Clutch.wav Peak level 97.7 % Range quality 100.0 % Test CRC D6520320 Copy CRC D6520320 Copy OKNo errors occurredEnd of status report