Leroy Jenkins? Driftwood : The art of improvisation
Leroy Jenkins? Driftwood
The art of improvisation
label: Mutable Music
ref: Mutable 17523-2
players: Min Xiao-fen (pipa), Denman Maroney (piano), Rich O?Donnell (Percussions), Leroy Jenkins (violin)
Halfway between the idiomatic and free improvisation, cohesive lines are progressively aborted, no single direction prevailing over the remaining, both in terms of timbre and harmonic content. Behind the apparent chaos, lies a carefully planned exploration that manages to draw a certain territory where free flow is contained. Rather than a proposal to freely research the abstract nature of sound, the origin seems to lie in an enhanced conception of musical language, thus exploring instrumental possibilities (extended techniques), scales and complex harmonies that are unfolded during a search for alternative possibilities. The tracks seem to deal with various parameters (melodic-harmonic, timbral-extended, rhythmic-density, and a mixture of the above) thus carrying out a comprehensive study of the possibilities in the field (as announced in the title) although it would possibly benefit from being a tad less faithful to scholasticism.
A medio camino entre lo idiomtico y la improvisacin libre, las lneas cohesivas se van descartando, sin que ninguna direccin prevalezca sobre el resto, tanto en trminos del contenido tmbrico como armnico. Tras el caos aparente yace una cuidadosa exploracin que logra trazar cierto territorio donde el flujo libre es contenido. Ms que una propuesta de libre investigacin en la naturaleza abstracta del sonido, el origen parece residir en un concepto ampliado del lenguaje musical, explorando posibilidades instrumentales (tcnicas ampliadas), escalas y complejas armonas que se despliegan en busca de posibilidades alternativas. Los cortes parecen enfocados a diversos parmetros (meldico-armnico, tmbrico-ampliado, rtmico-densidad y una mezcla de los anteriores) que conducen a un estudio amplio de las posibilidades del campo (ya anunciado en el ttulo) aunque quiz necesitase depositar menos fe en la escolstica.
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