Alan Silva - Luna Surface
While in the business of resurrecting old BYG Actuel records, here's another one, also posted on the Church#9 blog, then in the mp3 format, but again upgraded to a lossless audio format for posting here.
How to characterise this one? It is what it is, I guess. To some, an inpenetrable wall of sound, to others a no holds barred piece of collective improvisation. However which way it is viewed, assessed or interpreted, it's a piece which hardly had any precedents and hardly has seen any successors. Or maybe it has, but in terms of intensity and aural onslaught, rare by most standards.
A veritable star-studded cast of free jazz maestros on this 28-minute piece:
Bernard Vitet - trumpet, french horn
Grachan Moncur III - trombone
Archie Shepp - soprano sax
Anthony Braxton - soprano and alto sax
Kenneth Terroade - tenor sax
Dave Burrell - piano
Alan Silva - violin
Leroy Jenkins - violin, viola
Beb Guerin, Malachi Favors - bass
Claude Delcloo - drums
Recorded 17 August 1969 in Paris
Dive in!
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http://rapidshare.com/files/248550445/Alan_Silva_-_Luna_Surface.rar
I used to have this as an LP, thanks for the memories :-)
Thanks a lot for this, kinabalu! (Did you see my comment over at NGC?) I first heard this one at C#9, but I really enjoyed it. Not the kind of thing Braxton was likely to do again any time soon! A wall of noise, yeah, but a finely textured wall full of interesting splatches & globs.
Thanks!
I have a clean copy of Muhal Richard Abrams 1-0QA+19 at your disposal if you can wait four more weeks...
Thank you so much for making me aware of such wonderful music! Djoz
1009,
glad you liked it. It's an acquired taste, but you can play the "spot the individual player" game if you feel so inclined. I also have the triple Silva album set on BYG Actuel, but that's one helluva job getting it digitised, but it can be done, so if there's an interest ...
discobole,
any time is the right time!
Thanks for the tip. This piece is amazing!!
Keep up the great work. Yours is the first blog I hit every Monday morning.
kinabalu, thanks for the reminder of how compelling this disk is (you might have shared it the first time I got it)
Yes, I contributed this one, though did not actually post it. Many of those who followed that blog may have got it then, but there may be a few who didn't. In any case, this is an audio upgrade to flac - the original rip is always in the wav format and then converted to whatever compressed audio format is appropriate.
thanks a lot !!!!!!
thank you so much!!
This is Seasons by Alan Silva & Celestrial communication orchestra on 1970 live performance. Non stop 2hour and over 20 minutes huge works. In mp3.
Enjoy it!
http://rapidshare.com/files/443237801/AS-seasons_mp3.rar
thanks a lot!!! :D
Thank you !
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