Our Lady of the Flowers
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| Studio album by Matthew Shipp | ||||
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| Label (s) | RogueArt | |||
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CD |
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9 |
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67:16 |
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Park West Studio, Brooklyn |
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Our Lady of the Flowers is a jazz album by the Matthew Shipp Quartet. The recordings, taken on June 13, 2013 in the Park West Studio, Brooklyn, were released on August 7, 2015 on RogueArt .
background
Our Lady of the Flowers , titled in homage to the French writer Jean Genet and his work Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs , was the second album by Declared Enemy , Shipps Quartet with Sabir Mateen , William Parker and Gerald Cleaver . In 2006 the group presented the album Salute to 100001 Stars - A Tribute to Jean Genet (RogueArt). As with other sessions before, Shipp varied the instrumentation of the tracks, resulting in five quartet numbers, one trio piece ("Gasp"), two in duet form and one solo. Unaccompanied Parker plays a gnarled "Silence Blooms"; “New Tension” is a duet between Shipp and Mateen's clarinet, and “Irrational” is the duet between Shipp and Cleaver.
Track list
- Matthew Shipp Quartet Declared Enemy: Our Lady of the Flowers (RogueArt Rog-0057)
- Atomic Note 7:03
- New Tension 5:18
- A Different Plane 7:38
- From the Beyond 8:27
- Silence Blooms 4:24
- Irrational 6:46
- Our Lady of the Flowers 11:03
- Gasp 7:41
- Cosmic Joke 8:56
All compositions are by Matthew Shipp.
reception
According to John Sharpe, who reviewed the album in All About Jazz , the rather raw, but refined performance is characterized by the fact that nobody cares too much about alignment or mirroring. The resulting feeling of creative dissonance permeates the album. Although the quartet pieces are rather dense, everyone is adept at giving each other enough space without compromising their own direction.
Joel Barela wrote on Free Jazz Blog that this “as earthy as it is cosmic” sounding album may not have what it takes to become Shipp's all-time classic. “Time alone will tell us that. But damn it, if listening to New Tension is n't the sonic equivalent of breaking the seal of an aged bourbon beauty, I really don't know what it is, ”Barela enthuses.
Web links
- Information about the album at RogueART
- Listing of the album on Allmusic (English). Accessed January 1, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Salute To 100001 Stars - A Tribute to Jean Genet at Discogs
- ^ A b John Sharpe: Matthew Shipp Quartet: Our Lady Of The Flowers. All About Jazz, November 2, 2015, accessed July 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Matthew Shipp Quartet Declared Enemy: Our Lady of the Flowers at Discogs
- ↑ Joel Barela: Matthew Shipp Quartet: Our Lady Of The Flowers. Free Jazz Blog, November 30, 2015, accessed July 25, 2020 .