Flip and Spike

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Flip and Spike
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Studio album / Live album by Joe Morris
Released 1992
Studio The Outpost, Stoughton, MA
(4, 10) Middle East, Cambridge, MA
Genre Jazz
Length68:55
Label Riti
Producer Joe Morris & Anne Marcotty Morris
Joe Morris chronology
Sweatshop
(1990)
Flip and Spike
(1992)
Symbolic Gesture
(1994)

Flip and Spike is an album by American jazz guitarist Joe Morris released in 1992 on his own Riti label. It features a trio with Jerome Deupree, who was the original drummer in the rock band Morphine, and bassist Sebastian Steinberg.

Joseph Francis Michael Morris is an American jazz guitarist, bassist, composer, and educator.

Jerome Deupree American musician

Jerome Deupree is an American musician, based in Massachusetts. He is best known as the original drummer in the alternative rock band Morphine.

Morphine (band) American alternative rock band

Morphine was an American alternative rock group formed by Mark Sandman, Dana Colley, and Jerome Deupree in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1989. After five successful albums and extensive touring, they disbanded after lead vocalist Sandman died of a heart attack onstage in Palestrina, Italy, on July 3, 1999. Founding members have reformed into the band Vapors of Morphine, maintaining much of the original style and sound.

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Reception

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In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states "Flip & Spike is the first of Morris' recordings that articulate his signature investigations of the guitar as an instrument of sonic density and dexterity, not just as a solo vehicle. As such, and as a work of striking emotional commitment, it is quite remarkable." [1]

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In his book Honesty Is Explosive!: Selected Music Journalism, music writer Ben Watson claims about the album "Beneath the surface cool you sense a delirious funk. It creates a tension similar to the tumble-down-chaos-that-rocks in Beefheart." [2]

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Track listing

All compositions by Joe Morris.

  1. "Flip & Spike" – 7:44
  2. "Itan" – 14:19
  3. "Julianna" – 2:42
  4. "Contemporarity" – 16:37
  5. "Mnemonic Device #1" – 0:52
  6. "Mnemonic Device #2" – 1:31
  7. "Mnemonic Device #3" – 1:13
  8. "Mnemonic Device #4" – 1:48
  9. "Mombaccus" – 11:31
  10. "Reflexes" – 10:38

Personnel

Guitar fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

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References

  1. 1 2 Jurek, Thom. Joe Morris – Flip and Spike: Review at AllMusic . Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  2. Watson, Ben (2010). Honesty Is Explosive!: Selected Music Journalism. United States: Borgo Press. pp. 34–35. ISBN   1434457834.