OK - the personnel of this album by "The Thing" from Sweden is the following: Mats Gustafsson – Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone; Ingebrigt Haker Flaten – Bass; Paal Nilssen-Love – Drums; Joe McPhee – Pocket Trumpet, Tenor Saxophone. That's for that.
Then: "The album opens, interestingly enough, with PJ Harvey’s “To Bring You My Love.” Gustafsson and McPhee recast the Harvey tune in the same mode as this entire Cherry-inspired outing. McPhee, as he has shown throughout his career, is an excellent stand-in on pocket trumpet. Together the pair hover over the territory established by the band Old and New Dreams. That is, they start at Cherry and Ornette, fast-forward to Cherry and Dewey Redman, then take the music into this 21st century open horizon.
The sound of Albert Ayler propels the traditional “Going Home” and the Ulmer track “Baby Talk” with a wah-wah bass-line. We are also treated to a joyous saxophone-duet opening to the Frank Lowe tune “For Real,” where the possibilities of each musician’s horn is realized in passivity before they open up into a shouting match refereed by the energized drumming of Nilssen-Love." This is a solid hour of music making, and highly recommended.
Get it here: The Thing & Joe McPhee - "She knows..." (320Kbps)
And enjoy !
4 Kommentare:
These guys are great. I saw them when they played here in Philly. I have "Bag It" if you are interested.
great album, thanks
many thanks, this should be good
Yeah, this is a very early one. They're still going on, collaborating more recently with Steve Albini (as producer) and Otomo Yoshihide and released on the Smalltown Superjazz label in Oslo. Jazz with a punk attitude!
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