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artist: Cooper Moore Assif Tsahar
title: America
date: 2003
label: Hopscotch
genre: Jazz
rls. date: Mar/2004
tracks: 10
bitrate: 192kbps
size: 70,9 MB
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Cooper-Moore - piano, diddley-bo, banjo, mouth bow, drum-skins,
cymbal
Assif Tsahar - tenor sax, bass clarinet, classical guitar
This duet album between multi-instrumentalist Cooper-Moore and
reed boss Assif Tsahar is just the kind of political and
cultural statement that we need in this dark age at the nadir
of 2003. But it was needed in 1969, and it's easy to predict
that it will be just as necessary in 2010. While the title
track is a manifesto of chanted and scatted funky blues and hip
hop, with lyrical and wailing sax improv that suggests gospel
shouting, the rest are scenes from the panorama of the country
and the lives of its people. From the proceeding "Back Porch
Chill," with its soulful country guitar work by Moore and
Tsahar's Strolling bass clarinet, it's a road trip through the
yards and backstreets of the continent. There's the shamanistic
loneliness of the deserts in the mouth bow and clarinet
dovetails of "Tuscarora's Cry," and the outside urban
boundaries in the drums and tenor sax legato exploration of
"12th Avenue Messengers." "But it goes on, as in the
wonderfully pastoral "Lament for the Trees" ù which would have
been written by Stephen Foster if he had been a jazz player ù
and appears in two different configurations here. The mutant
gospel blues of "Beyond the Years" is a trip to a home we
seldom notice with all its strolling grace and lilting guitar
and clarinet lines. The set finishes on the thoroughly
postmodern "Wounded Knee," a knotty composition/improvisation
that offers tonal and dynamic explorations of constricted space
and restraint. America is an essential work, one that offers
not only the diversity of the landscape on the continent, but
also its conflicting purposes and ideas all expressed in the
universal sphere of music. Now this is discourse.
http://www.hopscotchrecords.com/
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01-America [04:46]
02-Back Porch Chill [04:52]
03-Tuscarora's Cry [06:37]
04-12th Avenue Messengers [03:33]
05-Lament For Trees [02:34]
06-The Tortoise And The Buzzard [03:11]
07-No Cracklin No Bread [05:07]
08-Lament For Trees [06:43]
09-Beyonf The Years [05:06]
10-Wounded Knee [09:03]
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51:32 min
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