Masses, by Spring Heel Jack

Masses

by Spring Heel Jack

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	1.	Chorale 08:26
	2.	Chiarascuro 07:22
	3.	Interlude 1 01:36
	4.	Masses 04:26
	5.	Cross 05:17
	6.	Salt 04:24
	7.	Medusa's Head 01:31
	8.	Red Worm 05:35
	9.	Interlude 2 03:05
	10.	Coda 06:04

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Masses is an utterly unexpected, and utterly gripping, collaboration between the East London duo, Spring Heel Jack and a group of top-flight improvisers, drawn largely from New York’s ascendant free jazz network but also including Evan Parker and microtonal violinist Matt Maneri.

If there are precedents for this particular mix, in which studio-processed audio environments are played back in real time as the triggers for, and fixed components in, a series of group improvisations, they feel few and far between. George Rusell’s 1967 Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature, Bob Ostertag’s Say No More Project, and some of Evan Parker’s explorations in the realm of synergetic electroacoustics provide three possible and very different models. But as Matthew Shipp points out, Masses “creates its own space and time”.
Masses opens a tunnel on a space where matter and anti-matter can co-exist without the vernacular power of either state being compromised or diminished. It is a total triumph.
(Soundcheck, The Wire - Tony Herrington,2001)

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released October 27, 2023

Side A
1. Chorale (J. Coxon, E. Parker, W. Parker, Shipp, Wales)
2. Chiaroscuro (Brown, Carter, E. Coxon, J, Coxon, Trebar, Wales)
3. Interlude 1 (Campbell. J. Coxon, Maneri, Wales)
4. Masses (Berne, Brown, Campbell, Carter, J. Coxon, Maneri, E. Parker, W. Parker, Shipp, Wales)
Side B
5. Cross (Campbell, J. Coxon, Maneri, Wales)
6. Salt (Brown, J. Coxon, E. Parker, W. Parker, Shipp, Wales)
7. Medusa's Head (Berne, J. Coxon, Wales)
8. Red Worm (Berne, J. Coxon, E. Parker, Wales)
9. Interlude 2 (Brown, Carter, J. Coxon, W. Parker, Wales)
10. Coda (Coxon, Maneri, Wales)

Tim Berne - alto & baritone saxophones
Guillermo E. Brown - drums
Roy Campbell - trumpet
Daniel Carter - flute, alto, & tenor saxophones
Ed Coxon - violins
Mat Maneri - acoustic & electric viola
Evan Parker - soprano saxophone
William Parker - double bass
Matthew Shipp - piano
George Trebar - acoustic & electric double bass
John Coxon & Ashley Wales - all other instruments

Produced by John Coxon & Ashley Wales
Recorded upstairs at the Strongroom London & Sorcerer Sound NYC
14/01/2000 by Oliver Meacock & Chris Flam
Mixed upstairs at the Strongroom by Oliver Meacock
Mastered at Abbey Road by Nick Webb
Executive Producer: Peter Gordon
Originally released on Thirsty Ear 2001 as part of The Blue Series
Artistic Director for Blue Series: Matt Shipp
All compositions are copyright control
Graphic Design Frauke Stegmann
Drawing Clara Lacy

@Treader 2023
©Frauke Stegmann 2023
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Originally founded by John Coxon and Ashley Wales (Spring Heel Jack) around 2004. A label that explores the intersection between composed and improvised music. Some of the roster includes legendary artists in the field of free improvisation such as Evan Parker, Han Bennink, Wadada Leo Smith and John Tchicai. ... more

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