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ramboy 21 €12.00 Michael Moore, alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet; Tobias Delius, tenor saxophone, clarinet; Eric Boeren, cornet; Wolter Wierbos, trombone; Ernst Glerum, bass; Michael Vatcher, percussion |
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Lovelock 05:30 Bulan/Khek Borates (trad. Myanmar) 03:55 Facade 05:20 Baltimore Oriole (Hoagy Carmichael) 05:47 Little French Boy (Burt Bacharach) 03:15 Selat Sunda 04:42 Jackdaws and Blackbirds (eric Boeren) 05:01 Wollic (Eric Boeren) 04:08 Mad 04:33 Colima 05:21 In the Secret Garden 03:41 Bilbao Song (Kurt Weill) 04:32 All other compositions by Michael Moore Recorded 25-27 January, 2004 by Frank van der Weij, assisted by David Klooker and Bento Kassies at E-Sound Studios, Weesp, NL |
Lovelock is named after James Lovelock, co-discoverer of the 'Gaia' theory, which views the Earth as a living organism; a wonderful antidote to the present ascendancy of faith-based viewpoints of how it all happened. Bulan and Khek Borates are two pieces found in an old book of Siamese songs. We treat them as found objects. Facade--facades are to be found everywhere, especially in Amsterdam. Baltimore Oriole is a beautiful tune by that master of pop, blues, jazz, and country & western songwriting. Little French Boy is from the Casino Royale soundtrack, which is much better than the movie. Selat Sunda is the strait between Java and Sumatra. The music is inspired by Javanese, Balinese, and music from the Karo Batak highlands of Sumatra. How people in such hot places can play such fast music I can't understand. Jackdaws and Blackbirds is an improvised portrait of the sounds in my garden. A humming melody in the background that you only notice when not listening to the sounds in the fore- ground: loads of jackdaws singing their descending lines ("krah, krah, krah, krah, krah, krah, krah...") with blackbirds and other birds singing pretty melodies on top in short bursts. Duke Ellington's 1938 recording of Braggin' in Brass knocked out Available Jelly's brass section completely. Was there more to be done with good old Tiger Rag? Wollic is written to feature Wolter Wierbos. Mad is a 'fake' Madagascar tune. Colima is the name of a city and state in Mexico where I have never been. In the Secret Garden was written in a barren, concrete play area in the middle of Amsterdam which we called the scret garden, perhaps for motivational purposes. For me, Bilbao Song tends toward stasis. "Despite his work with Han Bennink in Clusone and with other leading Dutch improvisers, American reeds-player Michael Moore remains too little-known. As a member of Available Jelly he plays with Tobias Delius on tenor-sax and clarinet; Eric Boeren, cornet; Wolter Wierbos, trombone; Ernst Glerum, bass; and Michael Vatcher, drums. Moore wrote most of the compositions for Bilbao Song, recorded in 2004 at Weesp, NL. The group cover an huge stylistic range, and Moore has that rare balance between Apollonian and Dionysian – and between the composed and the improvised – that enables him to draw on tradition in exploring radical new directions. |