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Lard - Pure Chewing Satisfaction (1997)Samples
Add the name of Canadian Dana Reason to the front ranks of improvising pianists. Her attack has many gradations of firmness and degrees of shading. More importantly, though these pieces appear to be pulled out of the air, they often have a compositional contour, with beginnings, middles and conclusions...Duvall does a yeoman’s job—supplying strong pizzicato underpinning and connective tissue. His furious plucking on “Moment’s Notice” (a Trio original, not the Coltrane chestnut) matches her high-pitched networks of notes...http://www.danareason.com/downbeat-review/
...a work of almost symphonic presence, and one, quite frankly, from which it might be hard to tease an effective standalone single. Each track's a minor phase or movement intimately linked with those around it. The twilight ease of the beautiful "Night Train"—with its slow, revolving shimmer—softening "Shoeshine"'s midnight clatter. The spacious, waltzing organ melody of "Oh My God" bleeding into the pattering hand drums and muffled vocal sample of "There Will Be Singing"'s soulful house. The cozy jazz of "Nothing Is Everything"—which sounds like Alice Coltrane crafting in house time—giving in to the heady throb and mesmerizing synth swirl of "Round Here." The slippery, hypnotic chimes of "Wonderland (The Race for Space)" leave a downy space for the dim ambient hush of closer "Oh My God (Reprise)." ..http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=7512
