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a r t i s t soweto kinch
a l b u m conversations with the unseen
l a b e l Dune
g e n r e jazz
r i p d a t e 20-04-2005
s t r e e t d a t e 21-04-2003
o r i g i n a l r e l 2003
s o u r c e cd
b i t r a t e VBR
e n c o d e r lame 3.90.3
r e l e a s e n o t e s
Soweto Kinch - alto sax
Femi Temowo - guitar
Michal Olatuja - double bass
Troy Miller - drums
guests:
Eska Mtungwazi - vocals
Abram Wilson - trumpet & vocals
This disc features three extended rap episodes, and the central
protagonist is a black, Birmingham-based alto saxophonist of only 23.
Yet most of Conversations With the Unseen is as tightly locked into
bop-driven straightahead jazz as anything recorded in the genre over
the past four decades. But if the set is a homage to the tradition,
it is a homage of the best kind - delivered with precocious skill and
sophisticated independence, and such freshness of improvised melody
that it sounds brand new.
Soweto Kinch's music speaks for itself so eloquently that it almost
seems like an excess of expressiveness when he resorts to
autobiographical raps to explain his attitudes. Apart from the
vibrant splicing of rap, bop and soul-jazz vocals on Good Nyooz
(involving the remarkable Eska Mtungwazi's eerie vocal blend of the
majestic and the childlike), Kinch's raps also lack the bite,
gymnastic verbal audacity and tightness of the best of the genre,
though they do serve the purpose of framing the set as if it were a
live show, and perhaps engaging a wider audience for the star.
But most of the music sparkles with life, and Kinch's alto-soloing
bubbles with invention. Doxology is an exclamatory, post-boppish
tempo-switcher in which the leader catches the headlong feel of an
early Ornette Coleman group, but with more of a chord-based
orderliness of line. Across many choruses, Kinch goes further out
into the alto's extremes, over Troy Miller's classic-bop drumming and
Michael Olatuja's Charlie Haden-like bass walk.
The title track starts with the unaccompanied sax and a stream of
delicious melodic ideas. Though Kinch sometimes recalls Jackie
McLean, the soft swinger Elison (a gentle jazz tune over deft
brushwork) could have come off a Lee Konitz record. Snakehips is
another beautiful alto reverie, turning from smokily spinning figures
to bouncing mid-tempo swing and then loose, wailing double-time. A
stunningly accomplished start to what's likely to be a glittering
career.
- John Fordham, www.guardian.co.uk
...and remember: s t a y f u f f e n s f o r l i f e
t r a c k l i s t
intro 02:11
doxology 09:15
conversations with the unseen 07:34
elision 05:56
spokes and pedals 06:30
intermission - split decision 08:20
snakehips 07:39
mungos adventure 07:07
the flame thrower 02:59
equiano's tears 10:23
good nyooz 03:21
outro 03:24
74:39
MB 111,8
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