Foreground Music
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| Studio album by Ken Vandermark & Pandelis Karayorgis | ||||
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CD |
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Title (number) |
9 |
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46:21 |
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WGBH Studios, Boston |
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Foreground Music is a jazz album by Ken Vandermark and Pandelis Karayorgis . The recordings made on January 14, 2006 at WGBH Studios, Boston, were released on Okka Disk in 2007 .
background
Pandelis Karayorgis had already recorded the album No Such Thing (Boxholder) in 1999 with Nate McBride and Ken Vandermark . On the album, Vandermark dedicates one of his compositions to the guitarist Derek Bailey , others to the pianists Sal Mosca and Misha Mengelberg and the painter and art theorist Josef Albers .
Track list
- Ken Vandermark / Pandelis Karayorgis: Foreground Music (Okka Disk OD12065)
- Lifgatowy 4:17
- United Forces of One 3:43
- JCT (for Sal Mosca ) 4:23
- The Clincher 3:59
- Dreamless (for Derek Bailey ) 7:43
- Betwixt 5:48
- Title Without Year (for Josef Albers ) 7:11
- Of Two Minds 3:33
- Absolute Camel (for Misha Mengelberg ) 05:44
- All compositions are by Ken Vandermark (3,5,7,9) and Pandelis Karayorgis (1,2,4,6,8).
reception
Andrey Henkin, who reviewed the album on All About Jazz , believes that the two musicians on Foreground Music are in the intimacy of a duo. You can experience Vandermark, who has contributed new pieces of music for the collaboration, in a subtle dialogue with a pianist, which is fascinating. Nothing of the usual bombast can be found here and even Vandermark's pieces seem to be aimed at understatement . And when interpreting the works of Karayorgis, one experiences Vandermark almost calmly, with little overblown effects or punctuation. When Rebus is playing afternoon music , Foreground Music is there to help calm down before bed.
The critic of the Free Jazz Blog wrote that Pandelis Karayorgis' playing on the piano is absolutely excellent, not expansive, but precise and concise, paying as much attention to the compositional structure as to the melodies themselves. Vandermark feels just as comfortable in this context as in each other. The music is abstract, with angular melodic figures that sometimes come close to modern classical music, but sometimes also reminded of music from the Middle East, with its lengthy themes and odd meters (like on "JCT"), or just romantic and subdued (on "Dreamless") or deal with jazz heritage and film music . “The sensitivity and reluctance are unusual for Vandermark, but it's absolutely excellent. Great musicians, great teamwork, great music. "
Web links
- Information about the album at Bandcamp
- Listing of the album on Allmusic (English). Accessed January 1, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ken Vandermark / Pandelis Karayorgis - Foreground Music at Discogs
- ^ Andrey Henkin: Ken Vandermark: Rebus, Foreground Music and Journal. All About Jazz, September 8, 2007, accessed July 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Vandermark Galore ... Free Jazz Blog, October 28, 2007, accessed on July 17, 2020 .