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Whistle Stopper - Vignettes
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List Price: $17.98
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Manufacturer: Ecm Records
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602517452770
Label: Ecm Records
Manufacturer: Ecm Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Ecm Records
Release Date: 2008-04-22
Studio: Ecm Records
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Summary: Take out the "Vignettes" & you'd have a 4* album!
Comment: This is my second Marilyn Crispell CD (the first being the generally excellent "Nothing Ever Was Anyway....").
Admittedly on the basis of only two listens so far, I have to say I am NOT really taken with this album as a whole.
I found the "Vignettes"(#'s1-7, of which #7 is the best) rather uneven & a distraction from the flow of the more substantial compositions. Furthermore, the longer the album went the more "heavy-handed" became the piano playing such that even "Ballade" (Track 14) felt fairly ponderous & predictable, given what Crispell had given us on the 13 tracks prior. It seems that while most of Crispell's early dissonant, combustible free jazz style has now disappeared (& whatever of this is left is shown in some of the "Vignettes") what's generally lacking is a lightness of touch & fluidity such that there's a big "more of the same" aspect to most of the latter pieces.
5* tracks are Valse Trist, Gathering Light & Cuida de Espiritu (all beautifully elegaic & melancholic).
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Editorial Reviews:
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Vignettes is Crispell's first solo album for ECM. As with her previous work for the label, she explores the lyrical, poetical, intimate side of her playing. The goal here, in performing fixed pieces or improvisations, is to play music from the heart and to rule out any habitual or stylized expression. The result is a remarkably pure musical journey, and one that traverses different territories, atmospheres, and scopes of feeling.
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