Trace_音乐专辑
Trace
表演者: Roof
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 1999
出版者: Red Note
条形码: 9990709082517
专辑简介
Virginia-born cellist Tom Cora (originally Corra) moved to New York in 1979. He joined the free/creative jazz scene and his first recordings were in the ensembles of drummer Andrea Centazzo, vibraphonist Karl Berger, guitarist Eugene Chadbourne and saxophonist John Zorn.
In 1980 he recorded the first album credited to Curlew (march 1980 - Landslide, 1981) with bassist Bill Laswell, guitarist Nicky Skopelitis, drummer Bill Bacon, and reedman George Cartwright. Cargo Cult Revival (march 1982 - Rift, 1983), a collaboration with David Moss, was his first major work. He then became active with the foreign crowd of progressive-rock, in particular the Canterbury exiles (notably, Fred Frith's Skeleton Crew).
In the meantime, Curlew had become the vehicle for saxophonist George Cartwright, who composed most of North America (august 1983 - Moers, 1985).
A 1986 live performance became Tom Cora's first solo album, Live at The Western Front (may 1986 - No Man's Land, 1987).
The following year he joined Nimal (RecRec, 1987), a combo formed by Swiss multi-instrumentalist Jean "Momo" Rossel that straddled the line between jazz, folk and progressive-rock. The jazz-vaudeville themes and the nonchalant conduction are inspired by Frank Zappa, and the value of the music rests in its arrangements. The first of the four parts of La Semaine des Quatre Jeudis simulates an orchestra of bagpipes and a harpsichord beating the tempo. The influence of Zappa's exuberant circus music is even stronger on the slightly out of tune Animal Triste. La Marelle ventures into exotic and medieval music, and the whole album sounds like a merry joke carried out by erudite musicologists.
A new line-up of Curlew, with Cartwright, Cora, drummer Pippin Barnett, guitarist Davey Williams, keyboardist Wayne Horvitz, recorded Live In Berlin (Cuneiform, 1988).
After more collaborations with David Moss, Butch Morris, Zeena Parkins, Rebby Sharp, Chris Cochrane, Peter Kowald, a set of duets with alto saxophonist Umezu Kazutoki, Abandon (october 1987 - Umisushi, 1988), two sets of trios with percussionist Samm Bennett and rotating third member, Third Person - The Bends (december 1990 - Knitting Factory, 1991) and Third Person - Trick Moon (Tsuki No Uso, 1991), two joint albums with the punk band Ex, Scrabbling at the Lock (january 1991 - RecRec, 1991) and And The Weathermen Shrug Their Shoulders (RecRec, 1993), and another album with Nimal, Voix De Surface (RecRec, 1990), and another Curlew album, Bee (november 1990), Cora finally released his second solo album, Gumption in Limbo (september 1990 - Sound Aspects, 1991), a parade of twelve brief solo cello vignettes.
Curlew's fourth album, A Beautiful Western Saddle (Cuneiform, 1993), featured Ann Rupel on bass and Amy Denio on vocals, along with old members Cartwright, Williams, Barnett and Cora.
Nimal later pared down to a trio (Rossel, Barnett and accordionist Bratko Bibic) and released Dis Tanz (1993).
Another album with Third Person (by now a permanent trio of Cora, Samm Bennett and Umezu Kazutoki), Lucky Water (june 1994 - Knitting Factory, 1995) was followed by two new projects: the free-improvising Under Cover Collection Band (Burkhard Stangl on guitar, Thomas Chapin and Max Nagl on reeds, Bennett: on precussion), that released Hr-Fest (Knitting Factory, 1995), and the abstract punk-noise experiment Roof (with Luc Ex on bass, Phil Minton on vocals, Michael Vatcher on drums), that released The Untraceable Cigar (february 1996 - Red Note, 1996) and the live Trace (Red Note, 1999).
Etymology (Rarefaction, 1997) assembled 94 brief pieces of solo guitar (Fred Frith), solo cello (Cora) and guitar-cello duos (Frith and Cora).
It's a Brand New Day (Knitting Factory, 2001) collects live performances.
Tom Cora died of cancer in 1998 at 44.
His talent was legendary, but only Gumption in Limbo, Nimal's Nimal and Voix De Surface, and Roof's The Untraceable Cigar stand to prove it.
曲目
1 Trace (7:28)
2 Halts (7:16)
3 A Plinth (0:39)
4 Buda Buda (2:42)
5 Spit Pedro (8:02)
6 Janna Li(v)e (7:49)
7 Magnifique (4:28)
8 Glory Too (3:06)
9 Blind Spots (4:22)
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