MVP LSD: The Graphic Scores of Lowell Skinner Davidson

Avant Jazz / Free Improvisation / Avant-Garde
premiera polska: 2021-10-18
kontynent: Ameryka Północna
kraj: USA
opakowanie: digipackowe etui
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Editor's Info
In the history of music, particularly African-American music, Lowell Skinner Davidson is unique. Among his many references, Davidson used his background as a biochemist to describe his approach to music. He made only one commercial recording (on ESP-Disk'), but left dozens of tapes of his post-1965 music--vital work that is mostly lost. He also left behind hundreds of scores made in the 1980s, many done on 3x5 index cards. They cannot be read like regular music, instead, they offer the player a specific guide toward randomness and imagination--a requirement that they be read as regular notation, but that the results find a balance between melodic line and pure sound. Based on their collective years of experience working with Davidson, Joe Morris, John Voigt, and Tom Plesk do their best to honor his compositions with their interpretations.
As with most engaging music, so much informs every moment of MVP LSD that any overarching description is futile. Each performer has a large timbral pallet, but more conventional modes of expression are also plentiful. Sample Morris's beautifully pantonal musings on "Separate Blue X" or Plsek's pointilistic punctuations on "Index Card no. 1." There is dialogue a-plenty, but the larger picture is of a trio, the three musicians often seeming to breathe as one as they explore these rich and multivalent compositional landscapes.
Mark Medwin "Dusted" 2009

muzycy:
Joe Morris: guitar
John Voigt: bass
Tom Plsek: trombone

utwory:
1. Blue Sky and Blotches 11:06
2. Particles 4:32
3. Separate Blue X's 2:38
4. Gold Drop #2 3:54
5. Orange Cards 4:41
6. Index Card #3 3:47
7. Index Card #1 3:38
8. Index Card #2 2:15
9. Double Sheet 16:04
10. Gold Triptych 6:24
11. Gold Drop #1 4:23

wydano: January 1, 2008
more info2: www.joe-morris.com