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artist :: Nicholas Payton
release :: Sonic Trance
year :: 2003
genre :: Jazz
label :: Warner Bros
catalog :: 9362-18447-2
link :: http://www.sonictrance.com/
ripper :: mbs-crew
date :: 22.09.2003
quality :: 192kbps / 44,1Khz / Full Stereo
source :: CDDA
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01.Praalude (Sonic Trance) 02:46
02.Fela 1 07:10
03.Velvet Handcuffs 03:48
04.Cannabis Leaf Raq 1 03:43
05.Seance 05:31
06.Tantric (Lewd Interlewd) 01:14
07.Shabba Unranked 01:13
08.Seance (Romantic Reprise) 02:12
09.Fela 2 05:42
10.Tantric 05:52
11.Blu Hays 07:09
12.Stinkie Twinkie (Remix) 03:05
13.Spiral 00:36
14.Peeping Tim 04:21
15.Cannabis Leaf Raq 2 01:57
16.Two Mexicans On The Wall 07:28
17.Exorcism 00:46
18.Toys In Babeland 03:39
:: 93,9 MB :: 68:12 min ::
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A good biography of the Man here :
http://www.nicholaspayton.com/
"I wasn't interested in playing tunes", says Nicholas
Payton. So the concept of ætakesÆ wasnÆt going to work.
WeÆd start something as I sketched it, then obliterate that
and take it somewhere else. No one knew what to expect and
that was what made it exciting.
Sonic Trance firmly establishes Nicholas Payton in the jazz
world of musical diversity. His first Warner release
demonstrates how he has grown from traditional roots into a
new escape of synthetic and acoustic textures. If art
itself happens all around us, then 68 minutes of Sonic
Trance sparks that art within us.
The greatest value of this record is clearly its aesthetic
journey through the fusion of many ideas framed in many
styles. Some songs are mixed together as are disparate
sections within a whole. The album's compositions range
from 47 seconds to over 7 minutes and if you really dig
this music you won't know the difference. It all works
together.
Sonic Trance is largely built on pleasing contrasts:
between sax and trumpet voices; between dislocated rhythm
and rhythmic horn parts; between groove and spatial
abstraction. We feel one part in able to discover the
other, and the process feeds back on itself. This is
especially true on three tunes that Payton divided into
reprisals: Fela, Cannabis Leaf Rag and Tantric. The record
opens ambitiously with an all-encompassing three-minute
blend of musical tangents and sampling environments.
Numerous songs in this collection beg to be seen live: Fela
1, Tantric and Two Mexicans on the Wall a three movement
suite with a hilarious beginning of punch-drunk Mexican
warblings.
Lest we forget, Nicholas Payton knows how to laugh. The
first 90 seconds of Cannabis Leaf Rag 1 bastardizes Scott
Joplin enough to put the listener on the floor. The sounds
in "Tantric: Lewd Interlude" step all over themselves.
Shabba Un-Ranked makes for nice rap, although the lyrics
are not exactly for a family audience. It is nice to know
that PaytonÆs music can giggle too.
The midway mark brings us a little closer to jazz ensemble
work and here, PaytonÆs group shines. Although the Romantic
Reprise of SΘance finds Adonis Rose in rhythmic
displacement, the horn tandem of Payton and Tim Warfield
soothes our ears. Rose and bassist Vicente Archer combine
on Fela 2 to provide Payton a chance to trip out on the
scales of harmonic improvisation. Tantric provides a primal
yet exploratory 4/4 feel with Kevin Hays shining on
keyboards. Karriem Riggins is felt more than heard
throughout this record; much of its sonic environment is
owed to the taste with which he applies samplers and
synthesizers.
Sonic Trance emphasizes its mission to explore the tasteful
use of electronic sound in a distinct jazz foreground. Two
Mexicans on A Wall includes a completely fluid musical
backdrop from which Nicholas Payton extends his technical
prowess. On Toys in Babeland, trumpet is used as a voice of
abstract cognition perhaps a most fitting end to a record
that reaches so high.
Listen to the whole record and stay seated briefly
afterwards. You may feel a bit stretched.
~ Gregory J. Robb
Personnel: Nicholas Payton (vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn,
keyboards, bass, drums); Tim Warfield (soprano and tenor
saxophone); Kevin Hays (vocals, recorder, keyboards,
piano); Vicente Archer (bass); Adonis Rose (drums); Daniel
Sadownick (percussion); Karriem Riggins (sampler and
synthesizer).
Im down with this album!!
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