The Mouser

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The Mouser
Reid Monico The Mouser.jpg
Studio album by
Tomeka Reid and Filippo Monico
Released2019
Recorded2015
StudioStudio of Filippo Monico, Milano, Italy
Genre Free improvisation
Label Relative Pitch
RPR1081
Producer Tomeka Reid
Tomeka Reid chronology
Antichamber Music
(2019)		The Mouser
(2019)		 Old New
(2019)

The Mouser is an album by cellist Tomeka Reid and percussionist Filippo Monico. It was recorded during 2015 at Monico's studio in Milano, Italy, and was released in 2019 by Relative Pitch Records. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

According to Reid, she and Monico had never played together prior to the recording session. [3] She stated that she had forgotten about the meeting until Monico presented her with a thumb drive of the session in 2017, and was pleasantly surprised by the results. [3]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
All About Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Free Jazz CollectiveStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [5]
Tom Hull – on the Web A– [6]

In a review for All About Jazz , John Sharpe wrote: "this is one of those albums where the focus is more on the dialogue between two people than any preconceived notions of the roles of the instruments themselves... What is remarkable for such a first time meeting is that there is none of the tentativeness which sometimes afflicts such encounters. And furthermore they avoid the obvious, to the extent that you never quite know what is coming next in their restless exchanges." [4]

Ivana Ng of The New York City Jazz Record called the album "an intimate session" and "unstructured play at its best." She stated: "Imaginative and daring, the two dive into the margins and depths of the cello and drums to uncover a much richer instrumentation and aural palette than one would expect from a duo... [the musicians] have a natural rapport immediately apparent from the very first note. Their interplay is cerebral yet joyful." [7]

The Downtown Music Gallery's Bruce Lee Gallanter commented: "The music here has a most organic, natural sounding quality, especially since both instruments are completely acoustic... This is an extraordinary duo with both players pushing their sounds past normal constraints. Somewhat low-key but no less incredible!" [8]

A reviewer for Poison Pie Publishing House remarked: "We can't immediately identify another cello and drums duet, but presumably in the history of human music-making, such a combination has previously manifested. Even so, it is unlikely that the sort of music that emerged bore any resemblance to that which Ms. Reid and Mr. Monico coax from their respective instruments." [9]

Writing for The Free Jazz Collective, Olle Lawson described the album as "a wonderful, fully-improvised document of shifting tonal colour, empathic interplay and dark, layered feeling - finally capturing on record the freer depth of Ms Reid's evolving art... Highly Recommended." [5]

Track listing

Composed by Tomeka Reid and Filippo Monico.

  1. "Without Recourse" – 13:18
  2. "Walk Within the Eye of the Storm" – 4:35
  3. "The Mouser" – 4:39
  4. "Wefting Through a Starry Sky" – 11:00
  5. "Intimations of Things to Come" – 4:40

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ "Tomeka Reid / Filippo Monico - The Mouser". Jazz Music Archives. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
  2. ↑ "The Mouser by Tomeka Reid / Filippo Monico". Relative Pitch Records / Bandcamp. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 Mandel, Howard (March 12, 2019). "On the Road with Cellist Tomeka Reid". DownBeat. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  4. 1 2 Sharpe, John (August 27, 2019). "Tomeka Reid - Filippo Monico: The Mouser". All About Jazz. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
  5. 1 2 Lawson, Olle (July 6, 2019). "Tomeka Reid / Filippo Monico - The Mouser". The Free Jazz Collective. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
  6. ↑ Hull, Tom. "Jazz (2000– )". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
  7. ↑ Ng, Ivana (April 2019). "Reviews" (PDF). The New York City Jazz Record. p. 24.
  8. ↑ Gallanter, Bruce Lee (February 15, 2019). "DMG Newsletter". Downtown Music Gallery. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  9. ↑ "Music Reviews from the Staff of the Poison Pie Publishing House". Poison Pie Publishing House. March 19, 2019. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
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