Signals for Tea

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Signals for Tea
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Studio album by Steve Beresford
Released April 25, 1995
Recorded July 1994
Baby Monster Studios, New York City
Genre Avant-garde, Jazz
Length66:33
Label Avant AVAN 039
Producer John Zorn and Steve Beresford
Steve Beresford chronology
Fish of the Week
(1993)		Signals for Tea
(1995)		 Short in the U.K.
(1996)

Signals for Tea is a 1995 album by composer, musician and arranger Steve Beresford which was released on the Japanese Avant label. [1]

Steve Beresford English musician

Steve Beresford is a British musician who graduated from the University of York. He has played a variety of instruments, including piano, electronics, trumpet, euphonium, bass guitar and a wide variety of toy instruments, such as the toy piano. He has also played a wide range of music. He is probably best known for free improvisation, but has also written music for film and television and has been involved with a number of pop music groups.

Avant Records was a record label in Japan that specialized in avant-garde jazz, avant rock, and experimental music. The label released more than 80 albums between 1992 and 2004.

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Allmusic review by Brian Olewnick stated "While generally enjoyable, a bit of sameness sets in after a while; the lyrics maintain interest, but the themes begin to blend into one another. The disc is worth hearing, however, if only to hear a side of the jazz avant-garde normally kept under wraps". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Steve Beresford and lyrics by Andrew Brenner

  1. "All My Fibres" - 4:01
  2. "Rent" - 4:17
  3. "Unremarkable" - 5:44
  4. "Signals for Tea" - 4:16
  5. "Approximate Song" - 3:31
  6. "Let's Get Cynical" - 3:43
  7. "Good Morning" - 6:50
  8. "The 3 Doors" - 6:06
  9. "Elephants" - 4:05
  10. "Little Window" - 4:30
  11. "The Agony of You" - 3:40
  12. "Good Morning (Solo Version)" - 3:15
  13. "Speed Limit" - 8:33
  14. "Unremarkable (Solo Version)" - 3:43

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.

John Zorn American composer, saxophonist and bandleader

John Zorn is an American composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist, and multi-instrumentalist with hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, and producer across a variety of genres including jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, and improvised music. He incorporates diverse styles in his compositions, which he identifies as avant-garde or experimental. Zorn was described by Down Beat as "one of our most important composers".

Alto saxophone type of saxophone

The alto saxophone, also referred to as the alto sax, is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s, and patented in 1846. It is pitched in E♭, and is smaller than the tenor, but larger than the soprano. The alto sax is the most common saxophone and is commonly used in concert bands, chamber music, solo repertoire, military bands, marching bands, and jazz. The fingerings of the different saxophones are all the same so a saxophone player can play any type of saxophone.

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References

  1. ↑ Steve Beresford discography accessed January 21, 2014
  2. 1 2 Olewnick, B. Allmusic Review, accessed January 21, 2014
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