___ _ __ __
___/ (_)_________(_)___/ /__ ____ / /_
/ __ / / ___/ ___/ / __ / _ \/ __ \/ __/
/ /_/ / (__ |__ ) / /_/ / __/ / / / /_
\__,_/_/____/____/_/\__,_/\___/_/ /_/\__/
_______________________________________________________________________
artist: Bradfield/Centazzo/Chadbourne/Cora/Kondo/Zorn
title: Environment For Sextet
date: 2004
label: Dunya
genre: Jazz
rls. date: Feb/2004
tracks: 05
bitrate: 192kbps
size: 66,5 MB
_______________________________________________________________________
Polly Bradfield - violin
Andrea Centazzo - percussions
Eugene Chadbourne - guitar
Tom Cora - cello
Toshinori Kondo - trumpet
John Zorn - sax
With Environment for Sextet begins the reprinting of the
catalogue of one of the most important and interesting
independent Italian label: Ictus Records. Founded and directed
by Andrea Centazzo between 1976 and 1984, when the label had to
stop his activity for economical reasons, the Ictus Records
catalogue includes some of the most important European and
American Free Music artists of that period.
Environment for Sextet was recorded in the United States in
1978 live during a radio broadcasting, when Centazzo was in
America for a long tour and had the chance to performer with
many young (at that time) musicians of the Free Music scene.
Writes Centazzo, in the linear notes of the CD, about the
music: ",the music was organised carefully; I stated to put
small rhythmic fragments and melodies in these open
compositions in which the improviser could sail free. We were
coming closer to the concept of accomplished musical structure"
. The music is deeply rooted in the post-Free Jazz sound of the
late seventies and it still preserves all the energy and the
life that moved all the musicians of the period, musicians who
were going to shape the music of our last decades.
First, of course, John Zorn still quite unknown in that period
but already very active and ready to show his way to compose
and improvise that characterise the 80's. Toshinori Kondo,
always present, in that period, in the most intense and
creative moments, Eugene Chadbourne, eclectic guitar player
able to switch with great easiness from rockabilly to the most
strong and wild moments of the Free Music; Polly Bradfield,
trumpet, and Tom Cora, a focal point for the most creative
musical experience complete the group.And, of course, Andrea
Centazzo, percussion e composer, a musician that is always been
able to reshape his carrier to follow new paths and directions,
never afraid to be in challenging situations, on the contrary
looking for them.
Recorded at WKCR Radio Station (NYC) November 7, 1978
_______________________________________________________________________
01-First Environment for Sextet [11:29]
02-Solo Improvisations [05:58]
03-Second Environment for Sextet [17:11]
04-Solo Improvisation #2 [08:04]
05-Improvviso III (duet) [05:42]
-------
48:24 min
_______________________________________________________________________
inventas vitam iuvat excoluisse per artes