Ambrosini / Arciuli / Angius - Plurimo - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Sunny Knable - American Variations [COMPACT DISCS] date 07/24/2012

Since arriving in New York in the early 1990s, he has become one of the most vital improvising musicians on the scene through work that has always ranged widely, moving from a jazz base out through various forms of folk, classical and rock music. Over the last six years, Chris Speed has been sorting through the varied strands of his circuitous, decades-long career, using his versatile trio with bassist Chris Tordini and drummer Dave King to transform numerous curiosity-led excursions past the porous boundaries of jazz into a meticulously focused sound that ties it all together with his foundational immersion in the tradition. In his various bands and collectives, he's explored plenty of rigorous hybrids situating his buoyant, increasingly aerated sound on tunes deftly adapting ideas from Eastern European folk, electronic dance music, and rock, but with this trio he's embraced the inspirations that set him on that twisting path without letting go of the knowledge he's gleaned along the way. The group has reached a new apotheosis of those ideas on Respect for Your Toughness. As with the trio's previous two albums, there's a standard sprinkled within indelible originals. Speed seems to have found a powerful sweet spot with his trio, achieving that preternatural ease where technique, study, and consciousness fall away and the spirit takes over. Album Tracks 1. Can This Be Love? 2. Attention Flaws 3. Helicopter Lineman 4. Faint Tune 5. Respect for Your Toughness 6. Taborn to Run 7. Strobe Dots 8. Casa Adela 9. Yard Moon 10. Transporter

This new is an opportunity to discover a set of innovative solo and accompanied works for the flute, composed over a forty-year period by Claudio Ambrosini, which have so far remained inaccessible while they have been repeatedly performed in public they have never been recorded or published. Listening to these works, presented here for the first time in a systematic manner, finally makes it possible to clearly appreciate the importance of Ambrosini's contribution to the development of the literature and the extended linguistic features of the flute since the end of the 1970s. Album Tracks 1. A Guisa Di Un Arcier Presto Soriano 2. Cadenza Estesa E Coda 3. Erbario Alpino (Con Due Ibridi Immaginari) 4. Classifying the Thousand Shortest Sounds in the World 5. Trompe-L'oreille 6. Un Altro Insopportabile Pezzo Per Flauto 7. Negli Sguardi Di Eurialo E Niso