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A hip-hop album where free-jazz meets avant-garde had to happen. And conceptually it works--who doesn’t want to peep out the urban sounds of tomorrow? But here, like on previous attempts to fuse the two genres (Miles Davis’s Doo-Bop collabo with Easy Mo Bee comes to mind) neither musical form really complements the other like it should. The instrumental numbers are the clear standouts. On "SVP," Matthew Shipp’s hypnotic piano loops combined with Anti-pop’s synthesizer blips work well. "Stream Light" features a masterful duel between Shipp and bassist William Parker that illustrates just how fami
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A hip-hop album where free-jazz meets avant-garde had to happen. And conceptually it works--who doesn’t want to peep out the urban sounds of tomorrow? But here, like on previous attempts to fuse the two genres (Miles Davis’s Doo-Bop collabo with Easy Mo Bee comes to mind) neither musical form really complements the other like it should. The instrumental numbers are the clear standouts. On "SVP," Matthew Shipp’s hypnotic piano loops combined with Anti-pop’s synthesizer blips work well. "Stream Light" features a masterful duel between Shipp and bassist William Parker that illustrates just how familiar they are with each other after years of playing together. By the latter third of the album, the Anti-pop MCs get their rap groove back--somewhat. "Monstro City," a be-boppy spoken word number, is a monster cut that is well served by Guillermo Brown’s percussion slaps. To be sure, this is certainly not meant to be a club-friendly Guru/Jazzmatazz album. However, as the title suggests, both entities really do seem to be working against one another ("A Knot in Your Bop"). Still, while the album may read better on paper than it sounds on your player, it’s definitely worth a thorough listen, if just to see where rap’s future possibilities may lie--outside of Outkast or RJD2, that is. --Dalton Higgins
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Manufacturer: Thirsty Ear
Release date: 18 February 2003
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0700435712027 UPC: 700435712027
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