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Angelology,
Perry Robinson's first CD for Timescraper, is named for an
almost forgotten branch of knowledge. But according to Matthew Fox
and Rupert Sheldrake in "The Physics of Angels", the universe
was long held by Hildegard von Bingen and Aquinas among others ...
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Perry Robinson Quartet - "Angelology"
Perry Robinson - clarinet
Simon Nabatov - piano
Ed Schuller - bass
Ernst Bier - drums
| 1. |
The
Call I |
P.
Robinson |
2:06 |
| 2. |
Wahaila |
P.
Robinson |
6:53 |
| 3. |
Son
of Alfalfa |
H.
Grimes |
5:09 |
| 4. |
Interlude
I |
Robinson/Nabatov
|
1:01
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| 5. |
My
Gypsy Baby |
P.
Robinson |
4:07 |
| 6. |
For
Django |
H.
Grimes |
5:07
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| 7. |
Walk
On |
P.
Robinson |
5:14 |
| 8. |
Touch
of Strange |
P.
Robinson |
6:20
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| 9.
|
Interlude
II |
Robinson/Nabatov |
1:27
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| 10. |
Harem
Dance |
P.
Robinson |
5:14
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| 11.
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Angels |
P.
Robinson |
8:15 |
| 12. |
Angelology |
P.
Robinson |
3:50
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| 13. |
The
Call II |
P.
Robinson |
1:34
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Recorded at
ON AIR STUDIO Berlin, December 1996
Engineer - Ahmed Chouraqui
Mastering - Calyx / Berlin - Bo Kondren
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Linernotes
Angelology,
Perry Robinson's first CD for Timescraper, is named for an
almost forgotten branch of knowledge. But according to Matthew Fox
and Rupert Sheldrake in "The Physics of Angels", the universe
was long held by Hildegard von Bingen and Aquinas among others to
be dense with the traces of meaning left by these invisible beings
darting from here to there with instantaneous ease, carrying messages,
their songs offered in praise of the underlying harmony of it all.
And who knows?
Maybe angels are the real historians, who when story of jazz in
the 1960's is told will have revealed several forgotten truths.
Among these will surely be the pivotal role Perry Robinson had in
moving the jazz clarinet into the post-bob era by taking it back
to Dodds. Teschmache and Russell and then redirecting it along the
line through Shaw, Scott and Griffith. For Perry, summoning up a
choir or two of angels emerges as the logical culmination of several
decades of burrowing beneath the modern world's austerity programs
for the occult lore buried there. So it is that on "Angels" a kind
of ancient cantus firmus is laid down, the bass line beneath the
hymnal main statement ripening into full-throated gospel as it alternates
first with a state of free angelic communication and then with the
demonic echoes of the fallen ones.
Jim
Cramer
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