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Some contemplative music -
The Necks - Open
The Necks - Open (2013)
Chris Abrahams: piano
Tony Buck: Drums
Lloyd Swanton: bass
Review from all aboutjazz.com:
Listening to a recording by the Australian trio The Necks is akin to overhearing a conversation between two giant sequoia trees. While humans might not perceive the growth and movement of the trees, mom and pop Sequoiadendron giganteum might comment, "Little Billy sure has sprouted up these past 400 years, he's outgrown all his school clothes, again!"
Open is the 17th album by pianist Chris Abrahams, drummer Tony Buck and bassist Lloyd Swanton. The band returns to their modus operandi, like their initial 1989 recording Sex (Private Music, 1995). Playing one long meditative piece (68 minutes), the trio utilizes slight and subtle changes, plus a pulse that could only be described as sequoia dance music. Not quite minimalism, nor ambient, the stillness they perfect is best described as smouldered improvisation.
After releasing the busy (by their standards) Mindset (ReR, 2011), this disc follows a stillness, albeit one with touches of electronics, electric guitar, and maybe a dulcimer. Opening with the ringing of a dulcimer (or is that the piano's insides?) the slow unravelling of sound begins. Wind chimes are rung as if the direction the band might take is left up to atmospheric pressure. However, after 25 years together, The Necks' music could never be described as serendipitous.
Separately, each player can be found in the company of major players of creative music. Chris Abrahams collaborated with Alessandro Bosetti, Jason Kahn, and Burkhard Beins. Tony Buck plays in Trophies (with Bosetti), and with the likes of Otomo Yoshihide, Aki Takase, Axel Dorner, Christian Fennesz, and John Butcher. Swanton's bass can be heard in The Catholics, and with Jim O'Rourke and Michiyo Yagi.
In trio is where they produce nonpareil music.
Their unhurried approach is spread thick into this ponderous music. The sounds are easy to get lost in: surprise comes in the form of cymbal work, the odd bass riff and the twinkling of piano keys. The sounds are only perceived once you submit yourself to the lifestyle of old-growth trees.
The Necks - Open
The Necks - Open (2013)
Chris Abrahams: piano
Tony Buck: Drums
Lloyd Swanton: bass
Review from all aboutjazz.com:
Listening to a recording by the Australian trio The Necks is akin to overhearing a conversation between two giant sequoia trees. While humans might not perceive the growth and movement of the trees, mom and pop Sequoiadendron giganteum might comment, "Little Billy sure has sprouted up these past 400 years, he's outgrown all his school clothes, again!"
Open is the 17th album by pianist Chris Abrahams, drummer Tony Buck and bassist Lloyd Swanton. The band returns to their modus operandi, like their initial 1989 recording Sex (Private Music, 1995). Playing one long meditative piece (68 minutes), the trio utilizes slight and subtle changes, plus a pulse that could only be described as sequoia dance music. Not quite minimalism, nor ambient, the stillness they perfect is best described as smouldered improvisation.
After releasing the busy (by their standards) Mindset (ReR, 2011), this disc follows a stillness, albeit one with touches of electronics, electric guitar, and maybe a dulcimer. Opening with the ringing of a dulcimer (or is that the piano's insides?) the slow unravelling of sound begins. Wind chimes are rung as if the direction the band might take is left up to atmospheric pressure. However, after 25 years together, The Necks' music could never be described as serendipitous.
Separately, each player can be found in the company of major players of creative music. Chris Abrahams collaborated with Alessandro Bosetti, Jason Kahn, and Burkhard Beins. Tony Buck plays in Trophies (with Bosetti), and with the likes of Otomo Yoshihide, Aki Takase, Axel Dorner, Christian Fennesz, and John Butcher. Swanton's bass can be heard in The Catholics, and with Jim O'Rourke and Michiyo Yagi.
In trio is where they produce nonpareil music.
Their unhurried approach is spread thick into this ponderous music. The sounds are easy to get lost in: surprise comes in the form of cymbal work, the odd bass riff and the twinkling of piano keys. The sounds are only perceived once you submit yourself to the lifestyle of old-growth trees.
Sonorous Sunday Music
Mar. 25th, 2018 12:10 pmTalking of sonorities -
King Crimson - Islands
Probably the best band use of the mellotron as a musical instrument and not a special effect. All performances here are filled with emotion -- Mark Charigs cornet -- its sadness quite stunning -- Ian Wallace's creative & accurate, lightly touched drums, the thin, but effective Boz Burrell vocals, jazz musician Keith Tippett's gentle piano (husband of Julie Tippett who worked with Brian Auger as Julie Driscoll). This music -- after King Crimson gave us "21st Century Schizoid Man," and "Epitapth," is incredible. Of course, if you still want that "Sailor's Tale" on this album will peel back your skin.
( More sonorities here )
Enjoy.
King Crimson - Islands
Probably the best band use of the mellotron as a musical instrument and not a special effect. All performances here are filled with emotion -- Mark Charigs cornet -- its sadness quite stunning -- Ian Wallace's creative & accurate, lightly touched drums, the thin, but effective Boz Burrell vocals, jazz musician Keith Tippett's gentle piano (husband of Julie Tippett who worked with Brian Auger as Julie Driscoll). This music -- after King Crimson gave us "21st Century Schizoid Man," and "Epitapth," is incredible. Of course, if you still want that "Sailor's Tale" on this album will peel back your skin.
( More sonorities here )
Enjoy.
I use to have loads of CD;;s by this band from down under - minimalist jazz by The Necks.
The Necks - Athenaeum
Wire magazine pointed me in their direction.
Absolutely gorgeous music that evolves organically.
The Necks are an experimental, jazz trio formed in 1987 by founding mainstays Chris Abrahams on piano and Hammond organ, Tony Buck on drums, percussion and electric guitar, and Lloyd Swanton on bass guitar and double bass. They play improvisational pieces of up to an hour in length that explore the development and demise of repeating musical figures.
The Necks were formed in 1987 in Sydney by founding mainstays Chris Abrahams on piano and Hammond organ, Tony Buck on drums, percussion and electric guitar, and Lloyd Swanton on bass guitar and double bass.
The Necks "issued several albums of abstract, improvised, jazzy mood music." Like Satie on ice cold water.
The Necks - Athenaeum
Wire magazine pointed me in their direction.
Absolutely gorgeous music that evolves organically.
The Necks are an experimental, jazz trio formed in 1987 by founding mainstays Chris Abrahams on piano and Hammond organ, Tony Buck on drums, percussion and electric guitar, and Lloyd Swanton on bass guitar and double bass. They play improvisational pieces of up to an hour in length that explore the development and demise of repeating musical figures.
The Necks were formed in 1987 in Sydney by founding mainstays Chris Abrahams on piano and Hammond organ, Tony Buck on drums, percussion and electric guitar, and Lloyd Swanton on bass guitar and double bass.
The Necks "issued several albums of abstract, improvised, jazzy mood music." Like Satie on ice cold water.
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