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a r t i s t mylab
a l b u m mylab
l a b e l Terminus
g e n r e jazz
r i p d a t e 15-05-2004
s t r e e t d a t e 03-02-2004
o r i g i n a l r e l 2004
s u p p l i e r m00g
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
All Music Guide Review:
Tucker Martine and Wayne Horvitz have worked together a lot over the
last decade or so, with Martine generally acting as engineer (his
role in the 4 + 1 Ensemble was "limited" to live processing), but
Mylab is their first fully collaborative effort together. The songs
started with Martine taking various ancient public-domain folk
recordings (from around the turn of the last century), which he then
sampled and looped in order to form the basis for new compositions,
fleshed out by Horvitz and Martine together. A long list of Seattle's
musical luminaries was then brought in for overdubs, sometimes adding
new parts and sometimes replacing the part created by the old
samples. The result is a thoroughly modern-sounding recording built
from the familiar rhythms and melodies of the folk music tradition
that country, blues, and rock & roll were built from. It's a
fascinating juxtaposition made more interesting by the fact that many
of the instruments and the samples themselves were treated further,
so sometimes it's difficult to discern whether the source is the old
recordings or the recent playing. And given the modus operandi, the
amount of stylistic ground covered is impressive. "Varmint" is built
on a mournful fiddle figure, with Danny Barnes' dobro adding a
further bluegrass flavor, which is tempered by one of several
excellent Bill Frisell solos. The next track, "Fancy Party Cakes," is
loaded with crazy electronic squelches, programmed (or highly
treated) drums, and backward effects. "Phil and Jerry" (an ode to the
Grateful Dead?) starts out sounding very African, thanks to the ngoni
playing of Kassemadi Kamissogo, then moves into Pharoah Sanders
territory with Skerik on sax. The title "Old Days" might be an
allusion to Horvitz's old band the President, as the tune strongly
recalls that band (with Andy Roth doing his finest Bobby Previte
imitation on drums, while Previte appears on several other tunes).
Despite the fact that there are a lot of different styles on display
here, Horvitz's tonal palette on keys and individual compositional
voice really ties all the songs together. Mylab is a unique-sounding
project that has succeeded in making an album that is interesting and
challenging while being utterly approachable. This is sonic alchemy
of the highest order. Well done.
...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
pop client 04:42
master korean musicians of canada 02:07
land trust picnic 03:18
varmint 03:32
fancy party cakes 02:54
phil and jerry 04:10
workaholic song 05:49
old days 05:41
earthbound 04:08
not in my house 05:06
ask mickey 03:29
chi-chi marina 05:05
50:01
MB 73,9
g r o u p n e w s
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