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artist · city of women
release · city of women 1
year · 2000
genre · avantgarde
label · puu
catalogue · puu-18
website · www.sahkorecordings.com
date · 15-feb-2004
quality · 192kbps/44,1khz
source · vinyl
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a1 soundcheck 0:30
a2 tablakone 7:52
a3 liberace 0:49
b1 viha y÷ssΣ 1:44
b2 veivikone 4:17
b3 sirkka 3:45
b4 city of women 3:46
playtime · 00h 22m 43s
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city of women was co-operative project of edward vesala and jimi
tenor. unfortunately this was to be the last released recording of
the great finnish freejazz drummer, visionary, composer and band
leader edward vesala since he deceased unexpectedly in 12/1999.
when you have artists of such different backgrounds as here, with
tenor being a master of the loungejazz and lo-fi electronics and
vesala being a composer of uncompromising new music/free jazz and
a drummer of highly personal style, what is expected really is an
unsatisfying mixture.
unfortunately that is just what this is. a very uneven compilation
of tracks, where the electronics dont't quite keep up with
vesala's fiery unsymmetrical and arhytmic beats and where vesala's
sampled aggressive freejazz bursts at some points don't fit the
music at all.
on side one, track 'tablakone' (tabla machine) is a boring sort of
a house track, with samples of vesala's drum beats, and keyboard
rhythms by tenor. nothing interesting. on side b1, there's some
more interesting stuff, with vesala bashing drums in quite fiery
and free fashion and tenor playing flute and several other
instruments. tenor isn't necessary the jazz-master he would like
to be, and vesala doesn't manage be quite as inspired as usual, so
the tracks tend to get a bit pointless after a while. still, i
prefer this side to the boring a staticly rhythmic first. there
are some nice beat's performed by a mechanical drum machine called
sirkka and fiery percussion by edward, but nothing really
interesting or innovative.
this record doesn't quite manage to portray the best qualities of
neither jimi tenor nor edward vesala. seemingly interesting
mixture of different musicians sort of proves the old point: you
can't mix oil with water. check their solo output for some of the
best free jazz and lo-fi lounge stuff around. - discogs
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