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birdfishtreeBuzzuniverse Thanks PaulI am in a quandary with this band. They got some great beats good sound and catchy lyrics. Sounds good right? Then they go off on some Jam band mentality and give you repetitive boring stretch out the song periods which drive me up the wall. If this band had stuck to 3:30 minute tunes i wouldn't have enough good things to say about this album If your a jam band fan and looking for some new snag this album . I would really like to like this album. It does a lot right and should have a good following but not quite my cup of tea, which didn't stop me from listen to three times in a row ED
Quote from: ecramer on 11 Aug 2009, 11:07 pmbirdfishtreeBuzzuniverse Thanks PaulI am in a quandary with this band. They got some great beats good sound and catchy lyrics. Sounds good right? Then they go off on some Jam band mentality and give you repetitive boring stretch out the song periods which drive me up the wall. If this band had stuck to 3:30 minute tunes i wouldn't have enough good things to say about this album If your a jam band fan and looking for some new snag this album . I would really like to like this album. It does a lot right and should have a good following but not quite my cup of tea, which didn't stop me from listen to three times in a row EDWell, they're not the reincarnation of the Allman Bros, but I give them credit for trying. They do sound better live, less repetitious. The cd is missing the raw energy of their live performance. I haven't found a good jam band in a long time, but I do enjoy this band live.
Shipp acknowledges his debt to players such as Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk and the latter is highly prominent in his style. Perhaps even more obvious is the influence of Duke Ellington - both in terms of attack and in terms of the orchestral manner inherent in much of the music to be found here...
Matthew Shipp's version of jazz is one that accommodates mysticism, and so a conversation about music with him will always yield the word "puzzle". He talks about his work as math, as formula, as metaphysics...By the Law of Music was conceived as a twelve-part suite, or, in the composer's words, a "kinetic grid"...
