Drone Dream
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| Studio album by Whit Dickey & Kirk Knuffke | ||||
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| Label (s) | NoBusiness Records | |||
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LP, download |
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6th |
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Valery Anosov |
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Studio 2, Brooklyn |
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Drone Dream is a jazz album by Whit Dickey and Kirk Knuffke . The recordings, which were made on January 12, 2018 in Studio 2, Brooklyn, were released in 2019 as a limited long-playing record and as a download on NoBusiness Records .
background
Drone Dream was the third duo album with a drummer in Knufkke's discography after the 2010 album The Exterminating Angel with Mike Pride and Fierce Silence (2015) with Whit Dickey.
Track list
- Kirk Knuffke & Whit Dickey: Drone Dream (NoBusiness Records NBLP 122)
- Soaring (7:36)
- Weave 1 (6:09)
- Weave 2 (6:49)
- Legba Sequence - Dream 1 (4:13)
- Legba Sequence - Dream 2 (7:06)
- Oblique Blessing (4:13)
All compositions are by Whit Dickey and Kirk Knuffke.
reception
According to John Sharpe, who reviewed the album on All About Jazz , the wonderful sound of these studio-recorded albums allows a full appreciation of every nuance of texture and timbre. Like the previous meeting (on Fierce Silence ), this is an encounter that is based on a sensitive, continuous dialogue, but two people speak at the same time, but clearly react to each other and constantly recalibrate, like a navigation device that is used off the route becomes.
In these free passages too, Knuffke's lines retained a melodic core, a connection to his parallel jazz releases on the Steeplechase label. But its tone remains great in any setting, although it can be modified with a vocal edginess, buzzing growl, or haunted groan. Dickey similarly falls back on a richly colored palette equipped with microrhythmic details, although his playing in this duo is more reserved and melodic than in many of his groups. He reveals a sense of narrative when he repeats motifs on part of his drums and then moves on, superimposing other phrases in a free polyrhythmic throb.
Mark Corroto, who also reviewed the album in All About Jazz , praised the part of the drummer; Whit Dickey, whose playing otherwise corresponds to the energy expenditure of musicians such as David S. Ware and Matthew Shipp , has mastered the smallest gesture that can be heard on "Weave 1" and "Weave 2", with almost whispered broom guidance and delicate cymbal play.
Derek Taylor pointed out in Dusted that the feeling that these two musicians could continue their clairvoyant common language indefinitely, even after the album faded away. The old musical adage of the equality of importance of what is played and what is not played finds an echo in the giving and taking of their instruments.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ John Sharpe: Whit Dickey / Kirk Knuffke: Drone Dream. All About Jazz, August 18, 2019, accessed on July 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Mark Corroto: Whit Dickey / Kirk Knuffke: Drone Dream. All About Jazz, September 3, 2019, accessed on July 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Derek Taylor: Whit Dickey / Kirk Knuffke: Drone Dream. Dusted, July 11, 2019, accessed July 23, 2020 .