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▀▀▓▓█▌ Rez Abbasi - Things To Come ░
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▀▀▄▓▒▓ Artist .....: Rez Abbasi ▓▒▓
▐█▓▓ Title ......: Things To Come ▓▓█
▀██▓ Year .......: 2009 ▓██
██▓ Genre ......: Jazz ▓██
███ Label ......: Sunny Side Records ▓██
███ Source .....: CD ▓█▓
███ Bitrate ....: 188 kbps avg ██▓
███ khz ........: 44.1 █▓▓
███ Mode .......: Joint Stereo ██▓
██▓ Encoder ....: LAME v3.97 -V2 --vbr-new ██▓
██▓ Reldate ....: 2009-11-11 ▓██
██▓ Storedate ..: 2009-00-00 ▓██
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███ 1. Dream State 8:06 ███
███ 2. Air Traffic 8:08 ███
███ 3. Hard Colors 7:07 ███
███ 4. Things To Come 2:03 ███
███ 5. Why Me Why Them 7:31 ███
███ 6. Within Sanity 11:02 ███
███ 7. Realities Of Chromaticism 9:07 ███
███ 8. Insulin 5:37 ███
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██▓ If you wanted to make a case for the new Indo-Pak ▓██
██▓ jazz cartel, this record would make a perfect ▓██
██▓ Exhibit A. Not only is its leader, guitarist and ▓██
██▓ composer of Pakistani heritage (born there, raised ▓██
██▓ in L.A.), but it includes the scene's two most ▓██
██▓ prominent figures, alto saxophonist Rudresh ▓██
██▓ Mahanthappa and pianist Vijay Iyer. But what makes ▓██
██▓ Things To Come a prime piece of evidence is that it ▓██
██▓ really doesn't sound like it's trying to put too ▓██
██▓ sharp a point on its ethnic particularity. It's too ▓██
██▓ natural to be that heavy-handed. ▓██
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██▓ The logic of a South Asian music crossover with ▓██
██▓ jazz is clear. They arguably represent the two most ▓██
██▓ developed improvising systems in world culture. The ▓██
██▓ challenge, since the period of the initial ▓██
██▓ Indo-Jazz Fusion experiments in the '60s, has been ▓██
██▓ to find a more integrated way to explore the ▓██
██▓ musics' commonalities. Abbasi is extremely ▓██
██▓ successful in this pursuit. He's an outstanding ▓██
██▓ instrumentalist, no question, but the framework for ▓██
██▓ the playing here is what really catches my ear. ▓██
██▓ With great ease Abbasi creates arrangements with ▓██
██▓ parts in overlapping but different rhythmic cycles, ▓██
██▓ keeping them light and airy so they don't obscure ▓██
██▓ one another. The result, on a track like "Hard ▓██
██▓ Colors," is a constant set of shifting ▓██
██▓ relationships between the fixed elements, which ▓██
██▓ becomes a springboard for improvisations. ▓██
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██▓ Whether on resonant, steel-string acoustic or ▓██
██▓ compact-toned, rather compressed electric, Abbasi's ▓██
██▓ playing is a pleasure. His little duet with Indian ▓██
██▓ vocalist Kiran Ahluwalia (who also sings on three ▓██
██▓ other tracks) on the title track offers one very ▓██
██▓ intriguing version of the possible hybird, with ▓██
██▓ unusual, evocative harmonic hues. The linear ideas ▓██
██▓ on tracks like "Why Me Why Them" and "Insulin" ▓██
██▓ remind me a bit of some of Henry Threadgill's ▓██
██▓ writing, especially when articulated by ▓██
██▓ Mahanthappa. His alto playing is out front here and ▓██
██▓ there, as on the impassioned "Realities Of ▓██
██▓ Chromaticism," and his playing always takes things ▓██
██▓ up a notch. ▓██
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██▓ Iyer is expert at finding the most unusual rhythmic ▓██
██▓ morsels in a piece. He's got an ability to manage ▓██
██▓ the thunderous chording left hand without having it ▓██
██▓ plod, which is a hazard; hear him manage it with ▓██
██▓ Prokofievian flair on "Dream Suite." But things To ▓██
██▓ Come is a group realization of a very ambitious ▓██
██▓ batch of compositional notions, and it's the band ▓██
██▓ that brings it home. Bassist Johannes Weidenmueller ▓██
██▓ and drummer Dan Weiss are evanescent, but ▓██
██▓ gravitational, just the ticket for these tricky ▓██
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