Tales from the Cryptic

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Tales from the Cryptic
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Studio album by Guy Klucevsek and Phillip Johnston
Released 2003 (2003)
Recorded September 23 & 24, 2002
Le Domaine De Lescombes, Eysines, France
Genre Classical music, Jazz
Length64:04
Label Winter & Winter 910 088
Producer Mariko Takahashi & Stefan Winter
Guy Klucevsek chronology
The Heart of the Andes
(2002)		Tales from the Cryptic
(2003)		 The Well-Tampered Accordion
(2004)

Tales from the Cryptic is an album by accordionist Guy Klucevsek with saxophonist Phillip Johnston which was recorded in 2002 and released on the Winter & Winter label. [1] [2]

Guy Klucevsek is an American-born accordionist and composer. Klucevsek is one of relatively few accordion players active in new music, jazz and free improvisation.

Phillip Johnston is an American avant-garde saxophonist. He came to prominence in the 1980s as co-founder of The Microscopic Septet and went on to write extensively for films, particularly new scores for classic silent films from the early 20th Century.

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In his review for Allmusic, Thom Jurek said that "This is a breathtaking recording, full of humor, warmth, tenderness, and plenty of instrumental fire that feels more like a live performance than a studio recording. Highly recommended". [3] In JazzTimes, Aaron Steinberg observed "The two players stroll through winsome ballads, spirited dances and dark, carnivalesque themes while claiming liberties and creative detours that hardly jeopardize the balance of these modestly scaled pieces. They jump in and out of structured passages with grace, inject the music with tartness and just as convincingly (and with only the slightest hints of tongue-in-cheek) navigate the sweetest of melodies". [4]

JazzTimes is an American magazine devoted to jazz. Published 10 times a year, it was founded in Washington, D.C. in 1970 by Ira Davidson Sabin (1928–2018) as a newsletter called Radio Free Jazz. Sabine founded Radio Free Jazz to complement his Washington, D.C. record store that he founded in 1962. As a newsletter, it informed consumers of the latest jazz releases and provided jazz broadcasters with news and backstories related to playlists.

Track listing

All compositions by Guy Klucevsek except as indicated

  1. "Spin Cycle" - 4:20
  2. "Tulips Are Better Than One" - 3:44
  3. "Am-Scray" (Phillip Johnston) - 4:38
  4. "The Gift" - 5:26
  5. "Trial By Error" (Johnston) - 3:32
  6. "Petite Ouverture a Danser" (Erik Satie) - 2:13
  7. "A Pear for Satie" - 4:28
  8. "Slippin' on a Star" (Johnston) - 4:56
  9. "No More Mr. Nice Guy" - 5:21
  10. "Der Leiermann" (Franz Schubert) - 3:07
  11. "Diggin' Bones" (Johnston) - 4:36
  12. "A Goyish Kind of Blue" - 4:51
  13. "The Road to Woy Woy" (Johnston) - 4:22
  14. "The Needless Kiss" (Johnston) - 4:40
  15. "Blue Window" - 3:50

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Winter & Winter discography, accessed December 15, 2014
  2. ↑ Phillip Johnston discography, accessed December 15, 2014
  3. 1 2 Jurek, Thom. Phillip Johnston/Guy Kluckevsek – Tales from the Cryptic > Review at AllMusic . Retrieved December 15, 2014.
  4. ↑ Steinberg, A., JazzTimes Review, January/February 2004
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