Elastic Aspects

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Elastic Aspects
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Studio album by Matthew Shipp
Released 2012
Recorded July 8, 2011
Studio Systems Two, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length48:44
Label Thirsty Ear
Producer Peter Gordon
Matthew Shipp chronology
Broken Partials
(2011)
Elastic Aspects
(2012)
Floating Ice
(2012)

Elastic Aspects is an album by American jazz pianist Matthew Shipp recorded in 2011 and released on Thirsty Ear's Blue Series. It was the debut studio recording by the trio with Michael Bisio on bass and Whit Dickey on drums, following a live performance included in Art of the Improviser .

Matthew Shipp American musician

Matthew Shipp is an American pianist, composer, and bandleader.

Thirsty Ear Recordings is an American independent record label. It was founded in the late 1970s as a marketing company for the then-unnamed alternative music field, and expanded to issue its own records in 1990.

Michael Bisio is an American jazz double bassist, composer, and bandleader. Since 2009 he has been the bassist for the Matthew Shipp Trio.

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Reception

Professional ratings
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In a review for JazzTimes Mike Shanley notes that "His playing here, and especially on the solo tracks, has a lyrical, delicate quality that should surprise anyone expecting more familiar avant-garde moves, like heavy thunder from the bottom of the keyboard." [2]

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The All About Jazz review by John Sharpe states "Shipp sounds like no-one else, with a style characterized by abrupt contrasts of crystalline delicacy rubbing shoulders with dissonant depth charges and insistent circular motifs." [3]

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The Down Beat review by Bill Meyer says that "Elastic Aspects can be seen as a companion piece to its predecessor in the way that it very explicitly breaks down the components of his trio music and isolates how they interact." [1]

Track listing

All compositions by Matthew Shipp
  1. "Alternative Aspects" – 2:19
  2. "Aspects" – 0:27
  3. "Psychic Counterpart" – 4:47
  4. "Frame Focus" – 3:52
  5. "Flow Chart" – 1:30
  6. "Mute Voice" – 3:12
  7. "Explosive Aspects" – 3:19
  8. "Raw Materials" – 5:30
  9. "Rainforest" – 5:08
  10. "Stage 10" – 3:12
  11. "Dimension" – 3:24
  12. "Elastic Aspects" – 4:30
  13. "Elastic Eye" – 7:36

Personnel

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Double bass Acoustic stringed instrument of the violin family

The double bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

Whit Dickey American musician

Whit Dickey is a free jazz drummer. He has recorded albums as a bandleader, with David S. Ware, Matthew Shipp and others.

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References

  1. 1 2 Meyer, Bill. Elastic Aspects review. Down Beat April 12: page 52. Print.
  2. Shanley, Mike. Elastic Aspects review at JazzTimes
  3. Sharpe, John. Elastic Aspects review at All About Jazz