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SUPERB AND RARE UK STOCK - CARDBOARD GATEFOLD SLEEVE - NEW -
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BRAND NEW SHRINKWRAPPED GATEFOLD CARD SLEEVE CD
Tracklist
1. Ingratiated Beam - Leroy 6:46
2. Century's Soles 4:39
3. Commonplace Travel 8:00
4. Magistrait 12:24
5. Yearn For Certainty 13:41
Personnel: William Hooker (spoken vocals, drums); David Soldier (banjo, mandolin, violin); Sabir Mateen (flute, clarinet, saxophone).
Audio Mixer: Steven Walcott.
Recording information: Roulette, NYC (04/27/2007).
William Hooker is a veteran of the creative improvising music scene, equally adept at post-Sunny Murray free bop bash or delicately weaving multicolored textures of percussion instruments. The poetic part of Hooker comes out on this recording, as does high-energy music and a more swinging element in tandem with Sabir Mateen on woodwinds and string player David Soldier, he of the famed Soldier String Quartet. Hooker's pulse is always present, but is constantly reinvented to suit each spontaneous composition with a varying dynamic level. Soldier's Spanish acoustic guitar and the wordplay of Hooker prove absolutely insightful during "Ingratiated Beam -- Leroy," inspired a bit by beat generation imagery and organic life, accented by phrases like "no TV -- sweet!" A modified rhythm & blues beat from Hooker's drum kit sets off a groove dance between Soldier's banjo and Mateen's tenor sax for the entirety of the short "Century's Soles," while the rhythmic swing of "Commonplace Travel" is slowed, but more jazz-oriented as the activity of the threesome builds. There's up-and-down free floating, punctuated by the pithy clarinet of Mateen, and the band does go into a free bop assault, wailing loud and proud, then silenced. The different high-level techniques of these three skilled musicians make anything possible, and you hear most of it on this fine recording that absolutely requires a follow-up effort. ~ Michael G. Nastos
Audio Mixer: Steven Walcott.
Recording information: Roulette, NYC (04/27/2007).
William Hooker is a veteran of the creative improvising music scene, equally adept at post-Sunny Murray free bop bash or delicately weaving multicolored textures of percussion instruments. The poetic part of Hooker comes out on this recording, as does high-energy music and a more swinging element in tandem with Sabir Mateen on woodwinds and string player David Soldier, he of the famed Soldier String Quartet. Hooker's pulse is always present, but is constantly reinvented to suit each spontaneous composition with a varying dynamic level. Soldier's Spanish acoustic guitar and the wordplay of Hooker prove absolutely insightful during "Ingratiated Beam -- Leroy," inspired a bit by beat generation imagery and organic life, accented by phrases like "no TV -- sweet!" A modified rhythm & blues beat from Hooker's drum kit sets off a groove dance between Soldier's banjo and Mateen's tenor sax for the entirety of the short "Century's Soles," while the rhythmic swing of "Commonplace Travel" is slowed, but more jazz-oriented as the activity of the threesome builds. There's up-and-down free floating, punctuated by the pithy clarinet of Mateen, and the band does go into a free bop assault, wailing loud and proud, then silenced. The different high-level techniques of these three skilled musicians make anything possible, and you hear most of it on this fine recording that absolutely requires a follow-up effort. ~ Michael G. Nastos
Whilst every effort is made to list CD's correctly, CD's in the UK and Europe and USA and Globally can either be supplied in DIGIPAK (Cardboard thin sleeve) or JEWELL CASE (Solid Plastic).
Some Titles can even be supplied in both versions.
Also, in an environmentally friendly world, many manufacturers are now supplying NEW CD's - NON Shrink Wrapped - They are still NEW AND UNOPENED but the manufacturers are manufacturing them WITHOUT Shrink Wrap at any point (After all Shrink Wrap is literally plastic designed to be thrown away by design)
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