artist : Cristian Amigo
title : Kingdom Of Jones
date : 2008
label : Innova Records
genre : Jazz
cat# : Innova671
release date: 01.02.2008
street date : 00.00.0000
tracks : 13
bitrate : avg. 179kbps
size : 88,8 MB
source : CDDA
type : Album
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New York composer and guitarist Cristian Amigo named his new
music jam band, Kingdom of Jones, after another bastion of
fierce cultural resistance. During the American Civil War,
confederates dubbed the city of Ellisville, Mississippi an
anti-secessionist Union stronghold in the midst of the
Confederacy û the ôFree and Sovereign State of Jones.
AmigoÆs kingdom reflects his position on what it takes to
exist in a complicated, global world of sonic possibilities.
Its wide-ranging sound world moves between the softest
ambient acoustic gestures, and the heaviest kinds of
industrial and electric sounds. The result is no
musically-beleaguered enclave: rather it offers listeners
many points of entry into its global amalgam.
Amigo is an acoustic and electric guitarist with an open
improvising bent, and an eclectic composer of theatre and
performance works, orchestral and chamber music, fierce
riffs, and art song. This, the first Kingdom of Jones CD, was
recorded and assembled while traveling during his Guggenheim
Fellowship year (2006-2007) and is a vehicle for exploration
of the avant-populist music in his head, heart, and hands.
Cristian Amigo and Kingdom of Jones (KOJ) are an ensemble
whose core players include Amigo (guitars, electronics,
voice), Izzi Ramkissoon (bass, laptop, processes) and
Guillermo Cardenas (percussion and trance). Playing live sets
of amplified LOUD music, they rock the place down with
experimental, often abstract, music and beats, soundscapes,
and electronic processes. In live performance, the band
remixes and fragments all types of music (Messiaen, Golijov,
Perez Prado, Nino Rota, Bob Marley, Fela, Led Zeppelin,
Cypress Hill, rumba, etc.), and recasts them mixed with
Kingdom of Jones sounds and original compositions.
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01-kingdom of jones 04:27
02-deathvariations i 01:35
03-queens 01:54
04-guitar gestures i 07:30
05-poplicola 02:33
06-rosmerholm 04:11
07-war is good for business 02:58
08-soldados soldiers 12:50
09-maya 03:26
10-bike spoke pianos 04:54
11-guitar gestures ii (tiple) 09:59
12-bomber goes home instead 08:14
13-oracion para la caida del sol 01:57
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66:28 min