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Progressive Rock . Avantgarde . Free Jazz . Experimental
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x──-·· · "HiGH iNTELLiGeNCE tRoLLS" Presents: · ··--──x
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║ Artist:....Vinny Golia ║
║ Title:.....Nation of Laws ║
┌║ Label:.....9 Winds ║┐
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│ ║ Style:..........[ Jazz ] Catalog Nr[ 0189 ] ║ │
│ ╚╗ Original Date:..[ 1996 ] Playtime:.[ 74:17 min ] ╔╝ │
│ ┌──║ Supplier:.......[ HiT ] Bit.Rate:.[ 192kbps ] ║──┐ │
│ │ ╔╝ Ripper:.........[ HiT ] Size:.....[ 102,1 Megs ] ╚╗ │ │
├─┤ ║ Release Date:...[ Jun-2003 ] Tracks:...[ 06 ] ║ ├─┤
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│ ║ recorded on July 30, 1996 and featuring Nels Cline, Rob Blakeslee, ║ │
│ ║ Joel Hamilton, and Alex Cline. ║ │
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│ ║ California saxophonist Vinny Golia is highly regarded among musicians ║ │
│ ║ for his uncanny lyricism, his strident, warm, giving tone, and his ║ │
│ ║ vast composing and arranging skills, but he is seldom looked upon in ║ │
│ ║ fan polls or even considered by popular jazz critics. One has to ║ │
│ ║ wonder if this isn't Golia's own fault for not blowing his own horn ║ │
│ ║ hard enough, so to speak. Golia's many recordings all have a degree of ║ │
│ ║ excellence to them that is almost unsurpassable by any current ║ │
│ ║ standard. Nation of Laws is no exception. Using his own multi-reed ║ │
│ ║ approach to composition and improvisation and his knack for lyrical ║ │
│ ║ composition that gives way to fiery improvisation, Golia has enlisted ║ │
│ ║ guitar and drum brothers Nels and Alex Cline along with Joel Hamilton ║ │
│ ║ on bass and trumpeter Rob Blakeslee. Golia's tunes have within them a ║ │
│ ║ playfulness to cross genres and harmonic norms and shift gears ║ │
│ ║ suddenly. Nowhere is this more evident than on the piece "Not Very ║ │
│ ║ Pleasance," which is part bebop tune, part elegant dance tune, and ║ │
│ ║ part prog rocker! Blakeslee's solo is full of flatted fifths and 16ths ║ │
│ ║ drawn in by Cline's mind-bending string work. Then there's the ║ │
│ ║ joyously weird "Big Child on the Loose." (That sums up Golia's ║ │
│ ║ personality to a T.) Beginning as a blues-rocker with Cline soloing on ║ │
│ ║ his low strings, the tune kicks in as part carnival ride, part ║ │
│ ║ Wagnerian epic, and part knotty jazz jam (with Golia blowing his ass ║ │
│ ║ off on the bass saxophone), and moves through history, mystery, death, ║ │
│ ║ and resurrection over 14 minutes. If this album is what the "new" jazz ║ │
│ ║ sounds like folks, count me way in. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide ║ │
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│ ║ Track List: ║ │
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│ ║ 01. Not Very Pleasance 12:44 ║ │
│ ║ 02. Perfect in The Pocket 15:12 ║ │
│ ║ 03. Grampa's Function 09:19 ║ │
│ ║ 04. Big Child on The Loose 14:51 ║ │
│ ║ 05. Early Morning Futon Phantast 07:45 ║ │
│ ║ 06. Splinter 14:26 ║ │
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│ │ ╔╝ Total Time: 74:17 min ╚╗ │ │
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