Thursday, January 16, 2014

URS LEIMGRUBER / JACQUES DEMIERRE / BARRE PHILLIPS – Wing Vane (2001)



Label: Les Disques Victo – VICTO CD 079
Format: CD, Album; Country: Canada - Released: 2001
Style: Free Jazz, Free Improvisation
Recorded live at Studio 2, Radio DRS (Zurich) on January 8-9, 2001.
Artwork – François Bienvenue
Re-Design by ART&JAZZ Studio, by VITKO
Executive-producer – Joanne Vézina, Michel Levasseur
Photography By – Michel Doneda


Some albums you need to give time, a chance to grow on you. Wing Vane falls into this category. Saxophonist Urs Leimgruber, pianist Jacques Demierre, and bassist Barre Phillips have recorded a free improv session dominated by the quietness of whispers and the violence of restraint. Listened to in a distracted manner, it sounds like a random aggregate of sounds, completely unrelated to each other -- when there is sound at all! You need to turn up the volume, pay close attention to the minute details, and experience the moments of silence for what they are: gut-wrenching artistic decisions. For an improviser, to consciously decide not to play -- to let silence fill the room and abdicate one's power over it -- is a gesture more meaningful than what listeners usually think. Listen to this CD once. A few days later listen again. You'll find it will offer you something slightly different from what you remembered. Repeat the experience: Again, you will discover new details, new feelings too. A record that teaches you how to listen to music is something to treasure. This kind of free improvising, focused on the subtle and understated, has become more widespread early in the first decade after 2000. What sets this trio apart is the fact that the musicians did not make a religion out of it. Occasionally, Leimgruber's sax produces soaring notes or enters a very busy phase. At certain times, Demierre drops rock-heavy clusters on the piano, driving an impressive crescendo in "Organically Yours." Yet, these moments don't aim at startling you; they flow naturally. Hearing Phillips in such a setting, decidedly more abstract than usual, is a pleasure. Recommended as an acquired taste.

_ By François COUTURE



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14 comments:

  1. LEIMGRUBER, DEMIERRE, PHILLIPS – Wing Vane (2001)
    MP3@320+Artwork

    GameFront:
    http://www.gamefront.com/files/23987616

    DepositFiles:
    http://dfiles.eu/files/4hzm1vu3f

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  2. Many thanks!
    Excellent album!
    From me to you and Uri:

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/c66il8c8x6lmu8x/WP.part1.rar
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/lwtfm1v0jkrmo00/WP.part2.rar
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/f2zeihcmbfsloa7/WP.part3.rar
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/hlsco9n53q3fxud/WP.part4.rar

    William Parker 2013 - 8 cd box 'Wood Flute Songs'

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    1. Sergio, thank you from my heart. This is a fantastic contribution. I'm sure many will rejoice.

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    2. where's the dropbox files?!

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    3. I'm sorry, but it seems to have disappeared. Maybe Sergio inform us what happened.

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  3. Thanks Vitko, terrific. Thanks too for the Mongezi Feza, it was wonderful to hear.

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  4. Sorry, my dear! Dropbox was temporarily block my account because too big traffic from it. Now I'll reupload files and new links will be posted some time later.

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  5. If someone prefer GoogleDisk, pick up there:
    https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0BzUcbxxVVsPmbFZxaENKLTgtYk0
    https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0BzUcbxxVVsPmZl9FTF9WczIyS2M
    https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0BzUcbxxVVsPmaTJNZk8xYm4yczg
    https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0BzUcbxxVVsPmaTFvemhlV3VXX28

    Dropbox still uploading...

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  7. Here putlocker links:
    http://www.putlocker.com/file/75EC76C504DFC2DA
    http://www.putlocker.com/file/3D88FA3FC5B6D39C
    http://www.putlocker.com/file/5E1857EAC7763A72
    http://www.putlocker.com/file/A7C965BC35F9FA08

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    1. Thank you Sergio once again, I see you've got your hands full. I checked , "Putlocker" doing well.
      Otherwise, I listened Parker, what to say, I enjoyed it immensely, so, now late preparations for my new post.
      Cheers Sergio, you gave me a beautiful gift.

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  8. You're welcome! I'm loving such music too. And everyday watch such blogs, like this, or Uri's blog, or inconstantsol. Many thanks for this!

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  9. Thanks Vitko and Sergio! the WP was a huge surprise ... and then the favour returned with the great Jimmy Lyons offering. Wow.

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  10. Back to the original share: thank you! I always find anything on the Victo label -- which is rare -- fascinating.

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