Pangea (Album)
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| Label (s) | Columbia Records | |||
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Double CD, double LP |
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Title (number) |
2 |
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88:36 |
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Pangea is an album by jazz trumpeter Miles Davis . It was recorded on February 1, 1975 in Osaka and released by Columbia Records that same year .
Prehistory of the album
After Bitches Brew (1970), the culmination of his stylistic upheaval, which took place since the albums Miles in the Sky (1967) and above all In a Silent Way (1969), the trumpeter recorded a number of live albums, the strong related to rock and funk rhythms, documented in albums such as Live Evil or Miles at Fillmore (1970). Then a rhythmic reorientation took place around 1972/73 : “Our melodies are getting shorter and shorter, and we play less and less of them, because all the melodies that you can hear have already been registered and exploited by the record business. (...) For this reason we are now much more concerned with rhythms, especially with polyrhythmics . And the melody can find itself in the rhythm of the bass and drums. We are three orchestras in one: an African, an Occidental and an Oriental, ” said Miles Davis about the direction of his music.
The album
The two double albums "Pangea" and "Agharta" were recorded on the same day; "Agharta" at the afternoon concert, "Pangea" at the evening concert in the Festival Hall in Osaka. The development already indicated in the album "Dark Magus" is continued here: The sound is made more dense and differentiated, the ensemble is reinforced with two guitarists. The young Pete Cosey succeeds in pairing the legacy of Jimi Hendrix with the technique of John McLaughlin . In the long-term improvisations of "Pangea", "all the formal norms that had previously determined the development of jazz are almost completely eliminated," said Davis biographer Peter Wießmüller of the album, "Miles repeatedly creates cosmic sound inserts from his experimental sound kitchen , whereby he transcends the boundaries of atonality. Flanked by escalating and precisely drummed percussion particles M'tume or Sonny Fortune's tender flute intonations, dreamy visions or even breathless tensions are evoked ".
The titles
Disc One
- "Zimbabwe" - 41:48
Disc Two
- "Gondwana" - 46:50
literature
- Ian Carr : Miles Davis - The Definitive Biography. Revised edition 1998 HarperCollins ISBN 0-00-6530265 .
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
- Erik Nisenson: Round About Midnight - A Portrait of Miles Davis . Vienna, Hannibal, 1985.
- Peter Wießmüller: Miles Davis - his life, his music, his records . Gauting, Oreos (Collection Jazz) 1985.