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Where his father Roy has been content with becoming a living legend of bebop drumming, Graham Haynes has long had a taste for ambitious concept albums, typically mixing his trumpet improvisations with modern dance beats and various world flavours. His most effective record to date has been The Griots Footsteps of 1994, which struck a perfect balance between his melancholy horn and West African grooves. The 1997 Tones For The 21st Century brought a disappointing lapse into amorphous synth noodling, but BPM marks a return to firmer beats and more shapely compositions. The vision remains as epic as ever--in three out of eight track
Where his father Roy has been content with becoming a living legend of bebop drumming, Graham Haynes has long had a taste for ambitious concept albums, typically mixing his trumpet improvisations with modern dance beats and various world flavours. His most effective record to date has been The Griots Footsteps of 1994, which struck a perfect balance between his melancholy horn and West African grooves. The 1997 Tones For The 21st Century brought a disappointing lapse into amorphous synth noodling, but BPM marks a return to firmer beats and more shapely compositions. The vision remains as epic as ever--in three out of eight tracks, Haynes takes on themes of Richard Wagner, colouring his interpretations with clattering electro beats and operatic samples. On other occasions, he creates ambient soundscapes using synths, dance beats, Indian raga and echoing trumpet. In his genre-hopping, his mildly reproachful trumpet sound and his electronically generated psychedelic moods Haynes harks back to Miles Davis's early 1970s work, but does he add much beyond new technology? On this evidence, the old technology of the trumpet remains his strongest suit.--Mark Gilbert
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Manufacturer: Knitting Factory
Release date: 15 May 2000
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0035828027021 UPC: 035828027021
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