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1 |
Way Back Out |
2 |
Yttrium |
3 |
The Conversation Has Ended |
4 |
Find A Way |
5 |
Unrecognised |
6 |
Neptunium |
7 |
Like A Dream |
8 |
No Cause For Concern |
9 |
Perspective |
Chris
Conway - |
theremin, keyboards, flutes, effects, zither, voice |
Simon
Styring - |
electric
guitar, guitar synth, effects |
John
Runcie - |
drums,
percussion |
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 Further.
Screaming theremin, ECM style jazz, minimal organ grooves, wild guitar, haunting flute, restless impressionistic drums, surreal dreamscapes. It's all here and more.
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background
Yttrium
is the 3rd album by improvised electronic jazz trio Continuum
and their first wholly recorded in the studio. While their
first two albums focussed on the ambient side of their music,
with the percussion playing an atmospheric supporting role,
on Yttrium they wanted the whole jazz drum kit to be an equal
third of the sound.
This album captured a wider variety of sounds from Continuum.
Sometimes wild, sometimes haunting and reflective, fusing
electronic music, jazz, ambient, minimal and more ina unique
way.
This album also launched a new label for CCs electronic music
- Zorpin Music.
CC's
fave track - No Cause For Concern
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continuum
Chris
Conway paints pictures with his theremin, and with the help
of mountains of delays and effects he moves from wild screams
to subtle chordal soundscapes which blend with his low Irish
whsilte and vocal effects to produce a rich deep layered
sound. He has worked with a strangely diverse set of musicians
including Talvin Singh, Peter Tork (Monkees), improviser
Derek Bailey, Martin Barre (Jethro Tull), composer Gavin
Bryars, violin masetro Dr L Subramanium, ECM saxman Martin
Speake, and Brazilain jazz diva Ithamara Koorax.
Simon Styring's guitar style comes out of Robert Fripp,
blending his sustainiac-loaded guitar with guitar synthesizer
and effects in intriguing ways. From sustained Frippatronics
to splintered Metheny-like free jazz guitar.
John Runcie is a superbly impressionistic jazz drummer in
the mould of ECM label regular Jon Christensen. He has worked
with Lee Konitz, John Surman and Barbara Thompson to name
a few. His restless creativity abounds, and his subtlety
is evident, interacting one minute, and driving the band
the next.
Together they create so many sound combinations as they veer from
space sounds to ambient electronica, free jazz to minimal
patterns. Out on the edge - not always tonal but with atonality
on the brink of breaking out. And vice versa…
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influences
Terje Rypdal, Robert Rich, Terry Riley, Simon Stockhausen,
Barbara Buchholz, Robert Fripp, Jon Christensen
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