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r e l e a s e . i n f o
Artist.....: J Spaceman & Mathew Shipp
Title......: SpaceShipp
Rip Date...: Feb-2009 Cat.No.....: TRD010
Style......: Avantgarde Label......: Treader
Quality....: VBRkbps Type.......: Album
Size.......: 59,7 MB Source.....: CDDA
r e l e a s e . n o t e s
The midwives of this collaboration were Spring Heel Jack (John
Coxon & Ashley Wales) and Patti Smith. Coxon and Wales first
brought Jason Pierce (aka J Spaceman) and Matthew Shipp together
as part of the ensemble on their 2002 Thirsty Ear album Amassed
and the subsequent U.K. tour that led to the Live album. Pierce
and Shipp are both regular collaborators with Spring Heel Jack,
and each already has a Treader release to his credit. As part of
her curation of the June 2005 Meltdown festival, at London's South
Bank, Patti Smith brought Spaceman and Shipp together to play in
homage to William Burroughs, performing in a trio with two of
them. This album was recorded the following summer, in July 2006,
and unlike most Treader albums, neither Coxon nor Wales played any
part in it; Pierce himself produced it.
Despite Coxon and Wales's proven talent for creatively combining
seemingly disparate elements, the combination of Shipp and
Spaceman does not seem an obvious one - although the album title
(previously used as a 2001 song title by Shipp himself) must have
been impossible to resist. Nonetheless, Shipp's jazz pedigree and
Spaceman's rock leanings combine to produce a sustained drone
piece that owes as much to Indian music (via La Monte Young) as it
does to Fripp & Eno. Where once jamming musicians would have opted
for a blues in their search for common ground, here the drone
seems to fulfil the same function.
With no obvious signs of pre-agreement, and no awkward "after
you"/"no after you" musical negotiation (no pussyfooting, in
fact), the two are straight into Inner, which lasts over 40
minutes. The players are equal partners in its creation, with no
struggle for control. Shipp uses harmonium to generate sustained
repetitive chords, with Spaceman overlaying guitar. As with any
good drone, the overall effect is mesmeric and transporting, with
the shifting detail as important as the constancy of the
background. A second track, Outer is shorter (under 11 minutes)
and more episodic, less mesmeric. It sees the roles shift from the
opening track, in that Spaceman's guitar chords create a backdrop
over which Shipp adds celeste details.
At the risk of stating the obvious, the track titles appear
significant, with Inner the more reflective piece and Outer
charting more of a journey. Taken together, the two tracks will
meet the very different expectations and needs of both Shipp and
Spaceman fans. No mean feat.
--John Eyles at dustedmagazine.com
That is one slick title, is it not? Though I must say, I for one
would have preferred it had they gone with ShippMan. Oh, perhaps
not... Both repeat offenders on the Treader label, Jason Pierce
(of Spiritualized and Spacemen 3 notoriety) teams up with modern
jazz icon Matthew Shipp, who plays celeste and harmonium over
these two extended drone pieces. This collaboration first came
about for Patti Smith's Meltdown festival, and this recording
represents a studio incarnation of that performance. The first
piece 'Inner' is a wonderfully immersive collision of sustained
tones and loop feedback, expanding, contracting, then expanding
some more, only for its companion 'Outer' to add a more melodic
element, with occasional specks of light from Shipp's celeste
twinkles fighting to escape the soupy clamour of Ol' J Spaceman's
guitar feedback.
--boomkat.com
p l a y l i s t
01 inner 41:04
02 outer 10:50
51:54 min
g r e e t i n g s
agw - amok - bass - bcc - bex - boss - cmg - cmc - cms - d2h
def - dh - disc0 - drum - emp - ftd - fwyh - gem - i8 - ipc
jce - jfk - jrp - just - khz - kinky - kw - lame - maem - mbs
mgc - psycz - r2r - rac - radial - rapid - rks - rtb - sb
sever - sfe - soup - sour - sq - tr - trt - ube - uc - upe
uki - xtc - yard - zi
respect to music lovers worldwide
never forget : go to the show. buy the t-shirt. order the vinyl