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planechant
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Date:
5/30/2010
Format:
CD (Album)
An excellent po-mo jazz outing of the sort that made the New York downtown scene such a thing of wonder a decade ago. Based in the ... er, bass of Gerhard Grami, Lunapark uses the titular upright acoustic as the common thread running between a number of musical settings presumably composed by Grami (there are no explicit writing credits, but it's implied). Two pieces conceived for orchestral and chamber settings ("condensed for combo"), anchor the disc. Other pieces feature "upright acoustic meets downright electric." Most haunting are the pieces featuring flutist Sascha Otto. The interaction between bass and flute makes for a beautiful conversation and transports me to a place first discovered by Eric Dolphy and Miles Davis on Filles de Killamanjaro. Genuinely fine disc with genuinely fine individual performances. Lunapark balances a number of voices to create a unified whole.
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