Callithump

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Callithump
Callithump.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 14, 2014 (2014-02-14)
RecordedDecember 13, 2012
Studio Avatar, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length53:09
Label Winter & Winter
910 210
Producer Stefan Winter
Uri Caine chronology
Rhapsody in Blue
(2013)
Callithump
(2014)
Present Joys
(2014)

Callithump is a solo album by pianist Uri Caine which was released in February 2014 on the Winter & Winter label. [1] [2]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Writing for The Sydney Morning Herald, John Shand observed "the American prefers to remind us of the wonder of the piano being equally capable of a delicacy so diaphanous that it rivals a harp. Meanwhile its phenomenal range and harmonic and dynamic potential make it the solo instrument par excellence... This direct-to-two-track analogue recording captures all the dynamism of his solo playing. It seduces with what ABC Classic FM would call "swoon" music, dazzles with invention and bullies with 88-note cyclones". [3] PopMatters' Will Layman stated "Callithump is both atypically normal and classic Caine... the stylistic range and sense of genre is massive, all-engulfing. And fantastic... Ultimately, you come to the end of Callithump exhilarated with the possibilities of a piano, a man, a space". [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Uri Caine

  1. "Callithump" - 3:35
  2. "Sepharad" - 7:02
  3. "Map of the Heart" - 4:30
  4. "Greasy" - 4:25
  5. "The Magic of Her Nearness" - 6:15
  6. "Chanson de Johnson" - 3:27
  7. "Bow Bridge" - 4:12
  8. "Everything Is Bullshit" - 3:54
  9. "Raindrop Prelude" - 5:28
  10. "Perving Berlin" - 5:33
  11. "Dotted Eyes" - 4:48

Personnel

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References

  1. Winter & Winter website, accessed November 25, 2014
  2. Uri Caine website Archived 2014-09-28 at the Wayback Machine , accessed November 25, 2014
  3. 1 2 Shand, John (August 22, 2014). "Uri Caine: Callithump SMH review". smh.com.au. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
  4. 1 2 Layman, Will (July 23, 2014). "Uri Caine: Callithump Pop Matters review". popmatters.com. Retrieved November 25, 2014.