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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:33:47 +0000
From: "[iso-8859-1] steven tobin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: portugese review
hey all,
already there is a review on a portugese site:
http://jazzearredores.blogspot.com/2005/10/com-data-de-sada-prevista-para-13-de.html
i've included the babelfish translation, but i think some nuance has been
lost :-) it would be nice if someone that actually speaks portugese could
translate..
best,
st
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With date of exit foreseen for 13 of next November, many of us we finally go to be
able to know The Songs, the workmanship that marked the estreia in record of Alan
Sondheim & Ritual All 770, a flock of musicians that lived and touched in one
loft in Providence, Rhode Island. Originally edited for however the deceased
Riverboat Records, The Songs was not so known (if thus if it can speak of material
that always circulated of hand-in-hand in the ways underground it free bordering
jazz and sonorous fields) as others two of Alan Sondheim with the Ritual tribe All
770: RITUAL and T'OTHER LITTLE TUNE, published for Bernard Stollman in the
ESP-Disk. Recorded in March of 1967, The Songs started to appear from now on in the
lists of better of always of experimental improvised music, for the ousadia that if
translated baralhar for complete the borders of improvised music, experimental and
contemporary, desacademizando the different musical forms. Obviously dated, the
music of Sondheim
& Ritual All 7-70 it obtains, however, to sound cool and today current. Alan Sondheim touches
guitars and acoustics, violin, flute, several other types of instruments of blow, xilofone, saxofone
high, shenai, mandolin, koto, cítara electric, etc. Barry Sugarman touches percussions, tabla, dholak
and naquerra; Chris Mattheson, contrabass; Robert Poholek, trompete; Ruth Ann Hutchinson and June
Fellows, voices; e J.Z. battery. The Songs is organized under the form of only part with some
sequential movements, where the voices, not directed, sing libretto written by Alan Sondheim, intitled
"Oratorio on the End of Visions", but that, by any reason not explained, finished for
sounding the "Oratorio on the End of Illusions". The music that supports the words was
written, but suggested at the moment for the different modulations that the singers went giving to the
text, sung of front stops backwards and behind onward, with acentuação in determined tickets. According
to Sondheim, the
creation freedom was total; the rule of the session, recorded in two takes of
that the second version was used to advantage (40 minutes), was only one: not to
stifle the sound of the instruments most delicate, nobody more would touch thus
that the guitar acoustics or koto sounded.... Important new edition of the Fire
Museum Records, S. Francisco, California, carried through from a vinyl record,
obtaining to get one reasonable sonorous quality very. Alan Sondheim & Ritual
770 All - The Songs (FM 04).
coming soon! ritual all 770/
alan sondheim- the songs fm-04
fire museum records
p.o. box 591754
san francisco, ca. 94159 u.s.a.
http://www.museumfire.com
