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01. Radical Empathy Trio - Collective Tunnels
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02. Radical Empathy Trio - Conscious Tunnels
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ARTIST
RADICAL EMPATHY TRIO
TITLE
Reality and Other Imaginary Places
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
ESP-DISK
CATALOG #
ESPDISK 5035LP
ESPDISK 5035LP
GENRE
JAZZ
RELEASE DATE
11/22/2019
LP version. This album was recorded during
Thollem McDonas
's 2017 residency at Brooklyn-based multi-discipline mecca Pioneer Works. It's the second by
Radical Empathy
, which combines three uncategorizable improvisors.
Michael Wimberly
has been astonishing folks since his days in
Charles Gayle
bands and
Steve Coleman & Five Elements
in the early '90s, and has gone on become a composer and educator of note.
Nels Cline
has spent decades changing people's ideas about the role of the electric guitar in multiple contexts, ranging from
Wilco
to
Anthony Braxton
(think about that!) as well as many projects as a leader; this is his fourth album in trio with Thollem, and a fifth will follow in 2020, also on ESP-Disk. Some people have given ESP-Disk' flak (and "flak" was not the first word choice here) about putting out Thollem McDonas albums. "
He's not in the jazz tradition,
" they say, and even though their idea of the jazz tradition includes
Albert Ayler
; ESP-Disk' think that this album will make their little, closed minds explode. The heavy electronic sound of the first track, with its swathes of distortion, put it very much in noise territory, with Wimberly contributing coloristic accents and heavier flurries of rhythmic activity. After the twenty uncompromising minutes of "Collective Tunnels", for "Conscious Tunnels" Cline switches to a guitar tone
John Abercrombie
wouldn't shy away from and Thollem sits down at an acoustic piano (for a while) -- though their free improvisation is just as uncompromising. The timbres cease pacifying jazzers when blippy 1950s electronic sounds slinkily slither from the speakers. Then the piano comes back, but the guitar's tone gets dirty. Genre boundaries are crushed underfoot as the moods continue to vary wildly as "Conscious Tunnels" covers an amazing breadth of timbres and textures. Personnel: Thollem McDonas - keyboards; Nels Cline - electric guitars; Michael Wimberly - drums. Recorded by
Justin Frye
at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY Sept. 13, 2017.
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