-──────────────── ▄██▄ ──────── ▀█████▄ -── ███ ███ ─ ▄██▄ ▀█████▄ ──── ▐███ ███▌ ▀██▀ ▄██████▄ -─ ████ ████ ▄▄▄ ▄██████████▄ ▐█████████▌ ███▌▐████▀ ▀████▀ ███████████ ████ ██▀ ─── ▀▀ ▐█████ █████▌▐███ ▀ ██████ ██████ ▀██ ────────── ███████ ███████▄ █ -.2ooo.- ─────── ▄▄▄ ──────────────── "HiGH ▀ iNTELLiGeNCE tRoLLS" _______________________________________________________________________ a r t i s t : Keith Tippett t i t l e : Mujician III (august air) d a t e : 1989 l a b e l : Free Music Production FMP CD 012 g e n r e : Avantgarde r l s. d a t e : Nov/2004 t r a c k s : 02 b i t r a t e : VBRkbps s i z e : 140,6 MB _______________________________________________________________________ All music by Keith Tippett Recorded by Jost Gebers on June 25 - 26, 1987 during the ┤Just Music┤ concert series at the FMP Studio Berlin. Produced by Jost Gebers Layout: Manfred Kussatz and Jost Gebers Photos: Dagmar Gebers Liner notes: Steve Lake First published in November 1989 Excerpt from the booklet: ... In the improvising world, KEITH TIPPETT is a unique player. Temperamentally, he belongs with the ┤free┤ improvisers and has played, successfully, with most of the best of them. Yet no other free pianist sounds like him. He is a lyrical player (though his lyricism is often balanced by steel-sprung rhythms) and his melodic instincts have never been impeded by the genre┤s call for total abstraction. (...) He is one of very few improvising pianists not playing like an echo of Cecil Taylor. KEITH TIPPETT admires Cecil Taylor too much to countenance copying and, anyway, has approached music from another direction. If Taylor thinks of his piano as 88 tuned drums, TIPPETT considers his an orchestra. Strings and voices seem to sing in his chords and in the often eerie and beautiful meshing and agitated interplay of harmonics. One could conclude that there is a perfect logic to his development, going back to his early days as chorister and church organist and trace a line through his Ovary Lodge group and that splendid big band The Ark. You might say that he has always played music of a religious intensity; he has certainly made sense of his own background. MUJICIAN III completes a trilogy of piano works for FMP and is, in my opinion, the ┤best┤ of his solo recordings, though none of them has been less than first-rate. http://www.fmp-online.de/ _______________________________________________________________________ 01-I love you, Julie [22:39] 02-august air [47:10] ------- 69:49 min _______________________________________________________________________